Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) is a software services consulting company headquartered in Mumbai, India. TCS is the largest provider of information and business process outsourcing services in Asia. TCS has offices in 42 countries with more than 142 branches across the globe. The company is listed on the National Stock Exchange and Bombay Stock Exchange of India. TCS is a flagship subsidiary of one of India's largest and oldest conglomerate company, the Tata Group, which has interests in areas such as energy, telecommunications, financial services, manufacturing, chemicals, engineering, materials, government and healthcare. Founded: 1968 Headquarters: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India Key people: Ratan Tata (Chairman) S Ramadorai (Vice Chairman) Natarajan Chandrasekaran (CEO & MD Employees: 160,429 (As on 31 March 2010) Website: www.tcs.com India Locations: Bangalore, Chennai, Ahmedabad, Baroda, Bhubaneswar, Coimbatore, Delhi, Gandhinagar, Goa, Gurgaon, Hyderabad , Cochin , Kolkata, Mumbai, Jamshedpur, Pune, Thiruvananthapuram.

1. Adam sat with his friends in the Chinnaswamy stadium at Madurai to watch the 100 metres running race organized by the Asian Athletics Association. Five rounds were run. After every round half the teams were eliminated. Finally, one team wins the game. How many teams participated in the race? (a) 30 (b) 32 (c) 41 (d) 54 2. (1/3) of a number is 5 more than the (1/6) of the same number? a) 6 b)36 c)30 d)72 3. There are two pipes A and B. If A filled 10 liters in an hour, B can fill 20 liters in same time. Likewise B can fill 10, 20, 40, 80, 160. If B filled in 1/16 of a tank in 3 hours, how much time will it take to fill the tank completely? a) 9 B) 8 c) 7 d) 6 4. Leena cut small cubes of 3 cubic cm each. She joined it to make a cuboid of length 10 cm, width 3 cm and depth 3 cm. How many more cubes oes she need to make a perfect cube? a) 910 b) 250 c) 750 d) 650 5. A lady has fine gloves and hats in her closet- 26 blue, 30 red, and 56 yellow. The lights are out and it is totally dark. In spite of the darkness, she can make out the difference between a hat and a glove. She takes out an item out of the closet only if she is sure that if it is a glove. How many gloves must she take out to make sure she has a pair of each color? 6. 10 men and 10 women are there, they dance with each other, is there possibility that 2 men are dancing with same women and vice versa? a) 22 b) 20 c) 10 d) none

7. A game is played between 2 players and one player is declared as winner. All the winners from first round are played in second round. All the winners from second round are played in third round and so on. If 8 rounds are played to declare only one player as winner, how many players are played in first round? a) 256 b) 512 c) 64 d) 128

8. 49 members attended the party. In that 22 are males, 17 are females. The shake hands between males, females, male and female. Total 12 people given shake hands. How many such kinds of such shake hands are possible? a) 122 b) 66 c) 48 d)1 28

9. There is 7 friends (A1, A2, A3....A7).If A1 have to have shake with all without repeat. How many handshakes possible? a) 6 b) 21 c) 28 d) 7

10. 20 men handshake with each other without repetition. What is the total number of handshakes made? a) 190 b) 210 c) 150 d) 250

11. On planet korba, a solar blast has melted the ice caps on its equator. 9 years after the ice melts, tiny planetoids called echina start growing on the rocks. Echina grows in the form of circle, and the relationship between the diameter of this circle and the age of echina is given by the formula d = 4*√ (t-9) for t ≥ 9 where d represents the diameter in mm and t the number of years since the solar blast.Jagan recorded the radius of some echina at a particular spot as 7mm. How many years back did the solar blast occur? a) 17 b) 21.25 c) 12.25 d) 14.05

12. A man goes 50Km north , then turned left walked 40Km, then turned right ? In which direction he is? a) North b) South c) East d) West

13. In T.Nagar the building were numbered from 1 to 100.Then how many 4’s will be present in the numbers? a) 18 b) 19 c) 20 d) 21.

14. Ferrari S.P.A is an Italian sports car manufacturer based in Maranello, Italy. Founded by Enzo Ferrari in 1928 as Scuderia Ferrari, the company sponsored drivers and manufactured race cars before moving into production of street-legal vehicles in 1947 as Ferrari S.P.A. Throughout its history, the company has been noted for its continued participation in racing, especially in Formula One where it has employed great success .Rohit once bought a Ferrari. It could go 4 times as fast as Mohan's old Mercedes. If the speed of Mohan's Mercedes is 35 km/hr and the distance traveled by the Ferrari is 490 km, find the total time taken for Rohit to drive that distance. a) 20.72 b) 3.5 c) 238.25 d) 6.18

15. A sheet of paper has statements numbered from 1 to 70. For all values of n from 1 to 70. Statement n says ' At least n of the statements on this sheet are false. ‘Which statements are true and which are false? a) The even numbered statements are true and the odd numbered are false. b) The odd numbered statements are true and the even numbered are false. c) The first 35 statements are true and the last 35 are false. d) The first 35 statements are false and the last 35 are false.

16. If there are 30 cans out of them one is poisoned if a person tastes very little he will die within 14 hours so if there are mice to test and 24 hours to test, how many mices are required to find the poisoned can? a) 3 b) 2 c) 6 d) 1

17. It is dark in my bedroom and I want to get two socks of the same color from my drawer, which contains 24 red and 24 blue socks. How many socks do I have to take from the drawer to get at least two socks of the same color? a) 2 b) 3 c) 48 d) 25

18. How many 9 digit numbers are possible by using the digits 1,2,3,4,5 which are divisible by 4 if the repetition is allowed? a) 57 b) 56 c) 59 d) 58

19. Given a collection of points P in the plane, a 1-set is a point in P that can be separated from the rest by a line, .i.e the point lies on one side of the line while the others lie on the other side. The number of 1-sets of P is denoted by n1(P). The minimum value of n1(P) over all configurations P of 5 points in the plane in general position (.i.e no three points in P lie on a line) is a) 3 b) 5 c) 2 d) 1 Ans: 5

20. The citizens of planet nigiet are 8 fingered and have thus developed their decimal system in base 8. A certain street in nigiet contains 1000 (in base 8) buildings numbered 1 to 1000. How many 3s are used in numbering these buildings? a) 54 b) 64 c) 265 d) 192 Ans: 192

21. Given 3 lines in the plane such that the points of intersection form a triangle with sides of length 20, 20 and 30, the number of points equidistant from all the 3 lines is a) 1 b) 3 c) 4 d) 0

22. Hare in the other. The hare starts after the tortoise has covered 1/5 of its distance and that too leisurely3. A hare and a tortoise have a race along a circle of 100 yards diameter. The tortoise goes in one direction and the. The hare and tortoise meet when the hare has covered only 1/8 of the distance. By what factor should the hare increase its speed so as to tie the race? a) 37.80 b)8 c) 40 d) 5 Ans: 37.80

23. Here 10 programers, type 10 lines with in 10 minutes then 60lines can type within 60 minutes. How many programmers are needed? a) 16 b) 6 c) 10 d) 60

24. Alok and Bhanu play the following min-max game. Given the expression N = 9 + X + Y - Z Where X, Y and Z are variables representing single digits (0 to 9), Alok would like to maximize N while Bhanu would like to minimize it. Towards this end, Alok chooses a single digit number and Bhanu substitutes this for a variable of her choice (X, Y or Z). Alok then chooses the next value and Bhanu, the variable to substitute the value. Finally Alok proposes the value for the remaining variable. Assuming both play to their optimal strategies, the value of N at the end of the game would be a) 0 b) 27 c) 18 d) 20

25. Alice nd Bob play the following coins-on-a-stack game. 20 coins are stacked one above the other. One of them is a special (gold) coin and the rest are ordinary coins. The goal is to

bring the gold coin to the top by repeatedly moving the topmost coin to another position in the stack.

Alice starts and the players take turns. A turn consists of moving the coin on the top to a position i below the top coin (0 = i = 20). We will call this an i-move (thus a 0-move implies doing nothing). The proviso is that an i-move cannot be repeated; for example once a player makes a 2-move, on subsequent turns neither player can make a 2-move. If the gold coin happens to be on top when it's a player's turn then the player wins the game. Initially, the gold coinis the third coin from the top. Then a) In order to win, Alice's first move should be a 1-move. b) In order to win, Alice's first move should be a 0-move. c) In order to win, Alice's first move can be a 0-move or a 1-move. d) Alice has no winning strategy.

26. For the FIFA world cup, Paul the octopus has been predicting the winner of each match with amazing success. It is rumored that in a match between 2 teams A and B, Paul picks A with the same probability as A's chances of winning. Let's assume such rumors to be true and that in a match between Ghana and Bolivia, Ghana the stronger team has a probability of 2/3 of winning the game. What is the probability that Paul will correctly pick the winner of the Ghana-Bolivia game? a)1/9 b)4/9 c)5/9 d)2/3 Ans: 5/9

27. 36 people {a1, a2, ..., a36} meet and shake hands in a circular fashion. In other words, there are totally 36 handshakes involving the pairs, {a1, a2}, {a2, a3}, ..., {a35, a36}, {a36, a1}. Then size of the smallest set of people such that the rest have shaken hands with at least one person in the set is a)12 b)11 c)13 d)18 Ans: 18

28. A sheet of paper has statements numbered from 1 to 40. For each value of n from 1 to 40, statement n says "At least and of the statements on this sheet are true." Which statements are true and which are false? a)The even numbered statements are true and the odd numbered are false. b)The first 26 statements are false and the rest are true. c)The first 13 statements are true and the rest are false. d)The odd numbered statements are true and the even numbered are false.

29. There are two boxes, one containing 10 red balls and the other containing 10 green balls. You are allowed to move the balls between the boxes so that when you choose a box at random and a ball at random from the chosen box, the probability of getting a red ball is maximized. This maximum probability is a)1/2 b)14/19 c)37/38 d)3/4

30. A circular dartboard of radius 1 foot is at a distance of 20 feet from you. You throw a dart at it and it hits the dartboard at some point Q in the circle. What is the probability that Q is closer to the center of the circle than the periphery? a) 0.75 b) 1 c) 0.5 d) 0.25

31. A sheet of paper has statements numbered from 1 to 40. For all values of n from 1 to 40, statement n says: 'Exactly n of the statements on this sheet are false.' Which statements are true and which are false? a) The even numbered statements are true and the odd numbered statements are false. b) The odd numbered statements are true and the even numbered statements are false. c) All the statements are false. d) The 39th statement is true and the rest are false.

1. There are 150 weights. Some are 1 kg weights and some are 2 kg weights. The sum of the

weights is 260. What is the number of 1kg weights?

Ans: 40

2. A is driving on a highway when the police fines him for over speeding and exceeding the limit by 10 km/hr. At the same time B is fined for over speeding by twice the amount by which A exceeded the limit. If he was driving at 35 km/hr what is the speed limit for the road? Ans: 15 kmph

3. A moves 3 kms east from his starting point . He then travels 5 kms north. From that point he moves 8 kms to the east. How far is A from his starting point? Ans: 13 kms

4. A car travels 12 kms with a 4/5th filled tank. How far will the car travel with 1/3 filled tank? Ans: 5 kms

5. The sum of the digits of a two digit number is 8. When 18 is added to the number, the digits are reversed. Find the number? Ans: 35

6. The cost of one pencil, two pens and four erasers is Rs.22 while the cost of five pencils, four pens and two erasers is Rs.32.How much will three pencils, three pens and three erasers cost? Ans: 27

7. Fathers age is 5 times his son’s age. 4 years back the father was 9 times older than son. Find the fathers’ present age. Ans: 40 years

8. What number should be added to or subtracted from each term of the ratio17 : 24 so that it becomes equal to 1 : 2 ? Ans: 10 should be subtracted

9. What is the 12th term of the series 2, 5, 8, …. Ans: 35

10. If 20 men take 15 days to to complete a job, in how many days can 25 men finish that work? Ans: 12 days

11. In a fraction, if 1 is added to both the numerator at the denominator, the fraction becomes 1/2. If numerator is subtracted from the denominator, the fraction becomes 3/4. Find the fraction. Ans. 3/7

12. If Rs.1260 is divided between between A, B and C in the ratio 2:3:4, what is C’s share? Ans: Rs. 560

13. A shopkeeper bought a watch for Rs.400 and sold it for Rs.500.What is his profit percentage? Ans: 25%

14. What percent of 60 is 12? Ans: 20%

15. Hansie made the following amounts in seven games of cricket in India: Rs.10, Rs.15, Rs.21, Rs.12, Rs.18, Rs.19 and Rs.17(all figures in crores of course).Find his average earnings. Ans: Rs.16 crore

16. If two pencils cost 8 cents, then how much do 5 pencils cost? Ans: 20 cents

17. Some work is done by two people in 24 minutes. One of them can do this work alone in 40 minutes. How much time does the second person take to do the same work ? Ans: 60 minutes

18. A car is filled with four and half gallons of fuel for a round trip.If the amount of fuel taken while going is 1/4 more than the amount taken for coming, what is the amount of fuel consumed while coming back? Ans: 2 gallons

19. The lowest temperature in the night in a city A is 1/3 more than 1/2 the highest during the day. Sum of the lowest temperature and the highest temperature is 100 degrees. Then what is the low temp? Ans: 40 degrees

20. Javagal, who decided to go to weekened trip should not exceed 8 hours driving in a day. The average speed of forward journey is 40 miles/hr.Due to traffic on sundays, the return journey’s average speed is 30 m/h. How far he can select a picnic spot? Ans: 120 miles

21. A salesperson by mistake multiplied a number and got the answer as 3, instead of dividing the number by 3.What is the answer he should have actually got? Ans: 3

22. A building with height D shadow upto G. What is the height of a neighbouring building with a shadow of C feet. Ans: (C*D)/G

23. A person was fined for exceeding the speed limit by 10 mph. Another person was also fined for exceeding the same speed limit by twice the same. If the second person was travelling at a speed of 35 mph, find the speed limit. Ans: 15 mph

24 A bus started from bus stand at 8.00am, and after staying for 30 minutes at a destination, it returned back to the bus stand. The destination is 27 miles from the bus stand. The speed of the bus is 18mph. During the return journey bus travels with 50% faster speed. At what time does it return to the bus stand? Ans: 11.00am

25. In a mixture, R is 2 parts and S is 1 part. In order to make S to 25% of the mixture, how much of R is to be added? Ans: One part of R

26. Wind flows 160 miles in 330 min, for travelling 80 miles how much time does it require? Ans: 2 hrs 45 mins

27. With a 4/5 full tank a vehicle can travel 12 miles, how far can it travel with a 1/3 full tank Ans: 5 miles

28. There are two trees in a lawn. One grows at a rate 3/5 of the other in 4 years. If the total growth of trees is 8 ft. What is the height of the smaller tree after 2 years Ans: 1 1/2 feet

29. Refer to the figure below. A ship started from P and moves at a speed of I miles per hour and another ship starts from L and moving with H miles per hour simultaneously .Where do the two ships meet? ||—g—||—h—||—i—||—j—||—k—||—l—|| PG H I J K L are the various stops in between denoted by || . The values g, h, i, j, k, l denote the distance between the ports. Ans: Between I and J, closer to J

30. If A is travelling at 72 km per hour on a highway. B is travelling at a speed of 25 meters per second on a highway. What is the difference in their speeds in m/sec. Ans: 1 m/sec

31. If the word ‘ddosszm’ is changed to ‘central’ then what will be the change for ‘rtjbl’ ? Ans: quick

32. The word unimpressive was given.they asked us to do change 1st & 2nd,3rd & 4th,so on.then they asked what will be 10th letter from right? Ans: m

33. The ques on a man,a woman and a boy finish work together in 6 days.man takes 10 days,woman takes 24 days then how much boy will take? Ans: 40 days

34. If DDMUQZM is coded as CENTRAL then RBDJK can be coded as ——— Ans: QCEIL

35. In the word ECONOMETRICS, if the first and second , third and forth ,forth and fifth, fifth and sixth words are interchanged up to the last letter, what would be the tenth letter from right? Ans: word is CENOMOTEIRSC tenth word is R

36. Find the physical quantity in units from the equation: (Force*Distance)/(Velocity*Velocity) Ans: Ns2/m

37. Find the value of @@+25-++@16, where @ denotes “square” and + denotes “square root”. Ans: 621

38. If f(0)=1 and f(n)= f(n-1)*n, find the value of f(4). Ans: 24

It was an online exam…. Test Consists of 3 Sections… + Psychometric Test

1. Test on Synonyms and Antonyms (40 questions, 20 minutes: Also Q’s on Sentence

Completion).

2. Aptitude Test (32 questions, 40 minutes: General Questions on Mathematics).

3. Critical Reasoning (30 Minutes: 3 Analysis Paragraphs and 12 questions Relating

them).

4. Psychometric Test (150 Questions, 30 minutes: only if you Qualify in the above

tests).

Details about How to Prepare for the above tests:

1. Verbal Ability:

This Test contains Synonyms & Antonyms…Almost all of them were From GRE BARRON’S

12th Edition & upward…30-50% of them will be repeated from previous TCS papers. Few

Questions on Sentence Completion were also there..for these also refer BARRON’S.

NOTE: During the Exam..you should be careful..because on the computer screen the names

Synonyms & Antonyms will be placed side by side so that we may by mistake choose an

antonym instead of a synonym…so Be Careful..

2. Aptitude Test:

This test will consist of very general questions…This is the easiest section Compared to the

Other Two. Almost 70-80 Questions will be repeated from the Previous TCS Papers…just

learn the method from those papers..same model will be given..(This happened almost all

the times). If you have time refer to any Aptitude book of your interest…it may be

R.S.AGARWAL or any Other……

3. Critical Reasoning:

Here Starts your Problems…30 Minutes…12 questions..don’t think that there is a lot of

Time..these will be somewhat tougher those who has some touch with such kind..and will

be Very Tough.. if you haven’t seen this kind before..so,you should have some practice

relating this kind of questions… 3 paragraphs will be given.. 3X4.. 12 questions.. first 2

paragraphs will be some twisty questions… like our arrangements questions… routes

between cities.. like that… and the last one will be on Data Interpretation…

You prepare Data Interpretation again from BARRON’S…. but the remaining from

R.S.AGARWAL-Reasoning…. Or from Barron’s 13th Edition

4. Psychometric Test:

This test comes up only if you qualify in the Aptitude test… This test consists of 150

questions which we should answer in 30 minutes (of course, that much time is not required)

Don’t think that this test has no weightage.. there is filtering in this test too… this test tests

your psychology.. Remember among 150 many questions were asked again & again in a

variety of ways.. so don’t get trapped… be honest while attempting this test.. choose what

you’re your heart says.. it will take you through the test..

This ends the Tests……

INTERVIEWS:

Now if you are Alive Even after All these tests….then you have to face a Technical

Interview…

It may be on the same day of the Test. So be Prepared in Advance.

The Interview will be done by a Panel of 2 members…. No need to worry.. They will be Very

supporting & Friendly.. First they ask us to Introduce ourselves… then they’ll go into your

project details… don’t forget to prepare project…. They mainly concentrate on your project

only…so be confident on every aspect of your project… then you should have some basic

knowledge on C language. There will be some questions like “what is the o/p of this code?”,

“what are the errors in the code?”..like that… so be prepared for all the basic concepts.. If

needed you have to write some small codes too.. at the end they will ask some general

questios like “Why TCS?”, “Where do you see yourself in the next five years?”, “do you have

any questions?”, try ask some questions… it shows your interest in the Company..

HR:

Now if Chase this one too…. Then comes your Final Attack.. the HR Round… I many times

heard that “I failed in HR round!”.. likewise anwers…. But you should not fail in it.. because it

involves no technical questions… it just dwell into your innerself… so, be confident and frank

while facing this round…They generally ask questions like “Tell about yourself?”, “Who r

your role models?”, “What is your weakness?”, don’t say “I Have no weakness!”, just

prepare a small weakness for yourself that causes no harm to your future…O.K.. “What is

your mother tongue?”

1. A Roman was born the first day of the 35th year before Christ and died the first day of the

35th year after Christ. How many years did he live?

(a) 70 (b) 69 (c) 71 (d) 72

2. A horse starts to chase a dog that has left the stable two hours earlier. The horse runs at an average speed of 2km/hr. It crosses a 10-metre road, two small ponds 3 metres deep, and finally runs along two small streets of 200 metres long. After traveling 6 hrs, 2hrs after sunset, it catches the dog. Compute the speed of the dog in Km/hr? (a) 20 (b) 22 (c) 16.5 (d) 18.5 3. Adam sat with his friends in the Chinnaswamy stadium at Madurai to watch the 100 metres running race organized by the Asian Athletics Association. Five rounds were run. After every round half the teams were eliminated. Finally, one team wins the game. How many teams participated in the race? (a) 30 (b) 32 (c) 41 (d) 54 4. If an airplane starts at point R and travels 14 miles directly north to S, then 48 miles directly east to T, what is the straight-line distance (in miles) from T to R? (a) 25 (b) 34 (c) 50 (d) 2500 5. A scientist was researching into animal behavior in his laboratory. He was very interested in studying the behavior of bears. He travelled a mile to the north and reached the north pole. There he saw a bear. He then followed the bear for an 1 hour to the east with a speed of 2km/hr. After that he travelled south and reached his laboratory in 2 hours. What was the colour of the bear? (a) Black (b) White (c) Red (d) Blue 6. A garrison of 3300 men has provisions for 32 days when supplied at the rate of 850 g per head. At the end of 7 days, a reinforcement arrives, and it is found that the provisions can last for 17 days more when supplied at the rate of 825 g per head. What is the strength of the reinforcement? (a) 1700 (b) 1000 (c) 3000 (d) 2700 7. Two unemployed young men decided to start a business together. They pooled in their savings, which came to Rs. 2,000. They were both lucky, their business prospered and they were able to increase their capital by 50 per cent every three years. How much did they have in all at the end of eighteen years? (a) Rs. 22,781.25 (b) Rs. 24,150.25 (c) Rs. 28,140.50 (d) Rs. 18,000 8. A man divides Rs.8600 among 5 sons, 4 daughters and 2 nephews. If each daughter receives four times as much as each nephew, and each son receives five times as much as each nephew, how much does each daughter receive? (a) Rs.800 (b) Rs.600 (c) Rs.200 (d) Rs.700 9. A train starts full of passengers. At the first station, it drops one-third of the passengers and takes 280 more. At the second station, it drops one-half of the new total and takes 12 more. On arriving at the third station, it is found to have 248 passengers. Find the number of passengers in the beginning. (a) 240 (b) 248 (c) 280 (d) 288

10. A manufacturer undertakes to supply 2000 pieces of a particular component at Rs.25 per piece. According to his estimates, even if 5% fail to pass the quality tests, then he will make a profit of 25%. However, as it turned out, 50% of the components were rejected. What is the loss to the manufacturer? (a) Rs.12000 (b) Rs.13000 (c) Rs.14000 (d) Rs.15000 11. In Tnagar many buildings were under residential category.for buildings they number as 1 to 100. For shops, corporation numbered between 150 and 200 only prime numbers. how many time 6 will appear in building numbering? (a) 10 (b) 20 (c) 8 (d) 19 12. 6 persons standing in queue with different age group, after two years their average age will be 43 and seventh person joined with them. hence the current average age has become 45. find the age of seventh person? (a) 69 (b) 70 (c) 40 (d) 45 13. 3, 22 , 7, 45, 15, ? , 31 (a) 45 (b) 90 (c) 91 (d) 35 14. Which is the smallest no divides 2880 and gives a perfect square? (a) 1 (b) 2 (c) 5 (d) 6 15. One grandfather has three grandchildren, two of their age difference is 3, eldest child age is 3 times youngest child’s age and eldest child’s age is two times of sum of other two children. What is the age of eldest child? (a) 5 (8) 10 (c) 8 (d) 15 16. It is dark in my bedroom and I want to get two socks of the same color from my drawer, which contains 24 red and 24 blue socks. How many socks do I have to take from the drawer to get at least two socks of the same color? (a) 2 (b) 3 (c) 48 (d) 25 17. 23 people are there, they are shaking hands together, how many hand shakes possible, if they are in pair of cyclic sequence. (a) 22 (b) 23 (c) 44 (d) 46 18. There are 10 reading spots in a room. Each reading spot has a round table. Each round table has 4 chair. If different no of persons are sitting at each reading spot. And if there are 10 persons inside the room then how many reading spots donot have atleast a single reader. (a) 5 (b) 6 (c) 7 (d) None 19. Middle – earth is a fictional land inhabited by Hobbits, Elves, dwarves and men. The Hobbits and the Elves are peaceful creatures who prefer slow, silent lives and appreciate nature and art. The dwarves and the men engage in physical games. The game is as follows . A tournol is one where out of the two teams that play a match, the one that loses get eliminated. The matches are played in different rounds where in every round , half of the

teams get eliminated from the tournament. If there are 8 rounds played in a knock-out tournol how many matches were played? (a) 257 (b) 256 (c) 72 (d) 255 20. There are two water tanks A and B, A is much smaller than B. While water fills at the rate of one litre every hour in A, it gets filled up like 10, 20, 40, 80, 160... in tank B.( At the end of first hour, B has 10 litres , second hour it has 20, and so on). If tank B is 1/32 filled after 21 hours, what is the total duration required to fill it completely? (a) 26 hrs (b) 25 hrs (c) 5 hrs (d) 27 hrs 21. A man jogs at 6 mph over a certain journey and walks over the same route at 4 mph. What is his average speed for the journey? (a) 2.4 mph (b) 4 mph (c) 4.8 mph (d) 5 mph 22. A pizza shop, there were 2 kinds of pizzas available. But now they have introduces 8 new types, a person buy two different type pizzas of new type in how many ways he can select? (a) 24 (b) 43 (c) 56 (d) 58 23. A box of 150 packets consists of 1kg packets and 2kg packets. Total weight of box is 264kg. How many 2kg packets are there? (a) 100 (b) 114 (c) 200 (d) 208 24. A man, a woman, and a child can do a piece of work in 6 days. Man only can do it in 24 days. Woman can do it in 16 days and in how many days child can do the same work? (a) 8 (b) 14 (c) 16 (d) 18 25. A bus started from bus stand at 8.00a m and after 30 min staying at destination, it returned back to the bus stand. The destination is 27 miles from the bus stand. The speed of the bus 50 percent fast speed. At what time it returns to the bus stand. (a) 11a.m (b) 12a.m (c) 10a.m (d) 10.30p.m 26. 2 oranges, 3 bananas and 4 apples cost Rs.15. 3 oranges, 2 bananas, and 1 apple costs Rs 10. What is the cost of 3 oranges, 3 bananas and 3 apples? (a) Rs10 (b) Rs15 (c) Rs20 (d) Rs25 27. If on an item a company gives 25% discount, they earn 25% profit. If they now give 10% discount then what is the profit percentage. (a) 40% (b) 55% (c) 35% (d) 30% 28. Two trains move in the same direction at 50 kmph and 32 kmph respectively. A man in the slower train observes the 15 seconds elapse before the faster train completely passes by him. What is the length of faster train? (a) 100m (b) 75m (c) 120m (d) 50m 29. A man spends half of his salary on household expenses, 1/4th for rent, 1/5th for travel expenses, the man deposits the rest in a bank. If his monthly deposits in the bank amount 50, what is his monthly salary? (a) Rs.500 (b) Rs.1500 (c) Rs.1000 (d) Rs. 900

30. It was Sunday on Jan 1, 2006. What was the day of the week Jan 1, 2010 (a) Sunday (b) Saturday (c) Friday (d) Wednesday 3 31. In how many different ways can the letters of the word 'LEADING' be arranged in such a way that the vowels always come together? (a) 360 (b) 480 (c) 720 (d) 5040 32. The captain of a cricket team of 11 members is 26 years old and the wicket keeper is 3 years older. If the ages of these two are excluded, the average age of the remaining players is one year less than the average age of the whole team. What is the average age of the team? (a) 23 years (b) 24 years (c) 25 years (d) None of these 33. Six bells commence tolling together and toll at intervals of 2, 4, 6, 8 10 and 12 seconds respectively. In 30 minutes, how many times do they toll together? (a) 4 (b) 10 (c) 15 (d) 16 34. The difference of two numbers is 1365. On dividing the larger number by the smaller, we get 6 as quotient and the 15 as remainder. What is the smaller number? (a) 240 (b) 270 (c) 295 (d) 360 35. In a flight of 600 km, an aircraft was slowed down due to bad weather. Its average speed for the trip was reduced by 200 km/hr and the time of flight increased by 30 minutes. The duration of the flight is: (a) 1 hour (b) 2 hours (c) 3 hours (d) 4 hours

Written Test:

Written test consists of 35 questions 80 mins, previously it is 60 mins but now time they increased 20 mins. It is a online test. Preparation: Up to my knowledge questions for written test is always from previous papers.so first of all solve below patterns mostly all these patterns and 19 November 2010, RVRJC College of Engineering, Guntur paper which is posted in freshersworld are repeated in written test and try previous papers given by various users in freshersworld.com and prepare quantitative aptitude by R.S Aggarwal. Pattern 1: 1. (1/2) of a number is 3 more than the (1/6) of the same number? a) 6 b)7 c)8 d)9 Solution: Let the number be x,

((1/2)*x)=3+(1/6)*x, Then solve x

2. (1/3) of a number is 3 more than the (1/6) of the same number? a) 6 b)16 c)18 d)21

3. (1/3) of a number is 6 more than the (1/6) of the same number? a) 6 b)18 c)36 d)24

4. (2/3) of a number is 4 more than the (1/6) of the same number? a) 6 b)8 c)36 d)24

5. (1/3) of a number is 5 more than the (1/6) of the same number? a) 6 b)36 c)30 d)72

Pattern 2: 1. There are two water tanks A and B, A is much smaller than B. While water fills at the rate of 1 liter every hour in A, it gets filled up like, 10, 20, 40, 80, 160 in tank B. (At the end of first hour, B has 10 liters, second hour it has 20 liters and so on). If tank B is 1/32 filled of the 21 hours, what is total duration of hours required to fill it completely? a) 26 B)25 c)5 d)27 Solution: for every hour water in tank in B is doubled, Let the duration to fill the tank B is x hours. x/32 part of water in tank of B is filled in 21 hours, Next hour it is doubled so, 2*(x/32) part i.e (x/16) part is filled in 22 hours, Similarly (x/8)th part in 23 hours,(x/4)th part is filled in 24 hours, (x/2)th part is filled in 25 hours, (x)th part is filled in 26 hours So answer is 26 hours.

2. There are two pipes A and B. If A filled 10 liters in an hour, B can fill 20 liters in same time. Likewise B can fill 10, 20, 40, 80, 160. If B filled in 1/16 of a tank in 3 hours, how much time will it take to fill the tank completely? a) 9 B) 8 c) 7 d) 6

3. There are two water tanks A and B, A is much smaller than B. While water fills at the rate of 1 liter every hour in A, it gets filled up like, 10, 20, 40,80, 160…..in tank B. 1/8 th of the tank B is filled in 22 hours. What is the time to fill the tank fully? a) 26 B) 25 c) 5 d) 27

4. A tank is filled with water. In first hour 10 liters, second hours 20 liters, and third hour 40 liters and so on. If time taken to fill ¼ of the tank if 5 hours. What is the time taken to fill up the tank? a) 5 B) 8 c) 7 d) 12.5

5. If a tank A can be filled within 10 hours and tank B can be filled ¼ in 19 hours then, what is the time taken to fill up the tank completely? a) 21 B) 38 c) 57 d) 76

Pattern 3: 1. 6 persons standing in queue with different age group, after two years their average age will be 43 and seventh person joined with them. Hence the current average age has become 45. Find the age of seventh person? a) 43 b) 69 c) 52 d) 31 Solution: Total age of 6 persons is x hours,after two years total age of 6 persons is x+12 Average age of 6 persons is after two years is 43 So (x+12)/6=43,then solve x, After 7th person is added then (x+7th person age)/7=45 So we will get 7th person age easily 2. In a market 4 men are standing. The average age of the four before 4years is 45, after some days one man is added and his age is 49. What is the average age of all? a) 43 b) 45 c) 47 d) 49 3. In a shopping mall with a staff of 5 members the average age is 45 years. After 5 years a person joined them and the average age is again 45 years. What’s the age of 6th person? a) 25 b)20 c)45 d)30 4. In a market 4 men are standing .The average age of the four before 2 years is 55, after some days one man is added and his age is 45. What is the average age of all? a) 55 b) 54.5 c) 54.6 d) 54.7 Pattern 4: 1. In the reading room of a library, there are 23 reading spots. Each reading spot consists of a round table with 9 chairs placed around it. There are some readers such that in each occupied reading spot there are different numbers of readers. If in all there are 36 readers, how many reading spots do not have even a single reader? a) 8 b) none c) 16 d) 15

Solution: 23 reading spots, Each reading spot consists of 9 chairs placed around it so There are some readers such that in each occupied reading spot there are different numbers of readers. For each table different no of persons are sat,so for first table 1 person is sit,2nd table 2 persons are sit 36 readers means(1+2+3+4+5+6+7+8 so 8 tables are filled so 23-8=15 reading spots does not have single reader. 2. In the reading room of a library, there are 10 tables, 4 chairs per table. In each table there are different numbers of people seated. How many tables will be left out without at least 1 person? a) 8 b) 6 c) 2 d) 7 3. In the reading room of a library, there are 10 tables, 4 chairs per table. In each table there

are different numbers of people seated. How many ways they will sit in the library so that no chair would be blank? a) 8 b) 6 c) 2 d) 7 Pattern 5: 1. A man jogs at 6 mph over a certain journey and walks over the same route at 4 mph. What is his average speed for the journey? a) 2.4 mph b) 4.8 mph c) 4 mph d) 5 mph Solution: Average speed=(2*x*y)/(x+y)

2. A man travels from A to B at 4 mph over a certain journey and returns over the same route to A, at 5 mph. What is his average speed for the journey? a) 4.44 mph b) 4.8 mph c) 4.887 mph d)5 mph

3. A person is rock climbing at an altitude of 800 m. He go up by 7 mph. and come down by 9 mph. what was his average speed? a) 7.875 mph b) 7.125 mph c) 7mph d) 7.5 mph

4. Find average speed if a man travels at speed of 24kmph up and 36kmph down at an altitude of 200m? a) 28.8 mph b) 27.8 mph c) 27.5mph d) 30 mph

5. Person travels to a hill, if he goes from A to B with speed of 4kmph and returns back to B with speed of 5kmph. What is his average speed of journey? a) 4.5kmph b) 4.44kmph c) 9kmph d) 4.245kmph

6. A man travels from A to B at 70 mph over a certain journey and returns over the same route to A, at 80 mph. What is his average speed for the journey? a) 74.66 b)75 c)74.33 d)74.99 7. Find average speed if a man travels at speed of 24kmph up and 36kmph down at an altitude of 200m. a) 28.8 b)28 c)27 d)28.6 Pattern 6: 1. Susan made a block with small cubes of 8 cubic cm volume to make a block ,3 small cubes long, 9 small cubes wide and 5 small cubes deep. She realizes that she has used more small cubes than she really needed. She realized that she could have glued a fewer number of cubes together to lock like a block with same dimensions, if it were made hollow. What is the minimum number of cubes that she needs to make the block? a) 114 b) 135 c) 21 d) 71

Solution: I do not know perfectly but I got some solutions from internet I do not know correctly whether it is tru e or not,((3*9*5))-((3-2)*(9-2)*(5-2)) so answer is 114. 2. A boy wants to make cuboids of dimension 5m, 6m and 7m from small cubes of .03 m3. Later he realized he can make same cuboids by making it hollow. Then it takes some cubes

less. What is the number of the cubes to be removed? a) 2000 b) 5000 c) 3000 d) 7000 3. Smita was making a cube with dimensions 5*5*5 using 1*1*1 cubes. What is the number of cubes needed to make a hollow cube looking of the same shape? a) 98 b) 104 c) 100 d) 61 4. Leena cut small cubes of 10 cm dimension each. She joined it to make a cuboid of length 100 cm, width 50 cm and depth 50 cm. How many more cubes does she need to make a perfect cube? a) 500 b) 250 c) 750 d) 650 5. Leena cut small cubes of 3 cubic cm each. She joined it to make a cuboid of length 10 cm, width 3 cm and depth 3 cm. How many more cubes does she need to make a perfect cube? a) 910 b) 250 c) 750 d) 650 6. A lady builds 9cm length, 10cm width,3cm height box using 1 cubic cm cubes. What is the minimum number of cubes required to build the box? a) 730 b) 270 c) 720 d) 310 Pattern 8: 1. (40*40*40 – 31*31*31)/(40*40+40*31+31*31)=? a)8 b)9 c)71 d)51 Solution:a3 -b3 =(a-b)*(a2+a*b+b2) so from this formula we will find (a-b) value 2. (98*98*98 – 73*73*73)/( 98*98*98 – 73*73*73)=? a).171 b).4 c).420 d).415 3. (209*144)^2 + (209*209)+(209*144)+(144*144) = ? a)905863729 b)905368729 c)905729368 d)65 Pattern 9: 1. ((4x+3y)+(5x+9y))/(5x+5y) = ? as (x/2y) = 2 a)8 b)none c)16 d)15 Solution: substitute x=4y in above we can find solution

2. x/2y = 2a,then 2x/x-2ay=? a)4 b)8 c)16 d)2

3. 3X/5Y = 5Y/3X…..Find the value of X/Y a)3/5 b)5/3 c)2/5 d)5/2

4. What is the value of (3X+8Y)/(X-2Y), if X/2Y=2 a)8 b)none c)10 d)13

5. (4x+3y)+(5x+9y))/(5x+5y) = ? as (x/2y) = 2 a)48/5 b)46/5 c)47/5 d)49/5

6. ((4x+2y)/(4x-2y)= ? as (x/2y) = 2 a)8/7 b)9/7 c)11/7 d)6/7 Pattern 10: 1. A girl has to make pizza with different toppings. There are 8 different toppings. In how many ways can she make pizzas with 2 different toppings? a) 16 b) 56 c) 112 d) 28 Solution: 8c2

2. A pizza shop made pizzas with many flavors. There are 10 different flavors, in that 7 flavors are taken to make pizza. In how many ways they can arrange? a) 240 b) 120 c) 65 d) 210

3. A pizza shop made pizzas with many flavors. There are 9 different flavors, in that 2 flavors are taken to make pizza. In how many ways they can arrange? a) 16 b) 26 c) 36 d) 46 Pattern 11: 1. 3, 22, 7, 45, 15,? , 31 a) 91 b)151 c) 90 d) 5

2. 8 6 17 14 35 31 75 _ 143? 3. Inspired by Fibonacci series Sangeet decided to create his own series which is 1, 2, 3, 7, 7, 22, 15, 67, 31, _, 63? a) 202 b) 31 c) 76 d) 49

4. 3, 12, 7, 26, 15, ? a) 54 b) 27 c) 108 d) 31

5. 1! + 2! + ……. + 50!=? a)3.1035*10^64 b)2.1021*10^65 c)3.1035*10^63 d)3.1035*10^62

6. 1, 2, 3, 6, 7, 14, _, 32?

7. 5, 9, 12, 18, 26, 36, 47, 72, _? a) 75 b) 135 c) 100 d) 55

8. 3, 15, x, 51, 53,159,161 a) 17 b) 34 c) 54 d) 112 Pattern 12: 1. Simple question but big one on average age.sth like a, b, c weighted separately 1st a, b, c ,then a& b, then b & c ,then c & a at last abc, the last weight was 167,then what will be the

average weight of the 7 reading? a) 95 b) 95.428 c) 95.45 d) 94 Solution: Last weight abc is 167i.e three persons weight is 167 .in first 6 combinations a,b,c,ab,bc,ac i.e a checked weight for 3 times totally like that band c also so total weight in all 7 combinations is (4*167) Average is (668/7)=95.42 Pattern 13: 1. A toy train produces 10 different sounds when it moves around a circular toy track of radius 5 m at 10 m per min. However, the toy train is defective and it now produces only 2 different tunes at random. What are the odds that the train produces for consecutive music tones of the same type? a) 1 in 16 B) 1 in 4 c) 1 in 8 d) 1 in 32 Solution: Initially it produces 10 sounds and the defect came and now it produces only 2 different sounds and consecutively so there are totally 2 sounds and we have to select on sound and the probability is ½ and it produces the same sound concecutively for 2 times so the probability becomes ½*1/2 ie ¼ 2. A car manufacturer produces only red and blue models which come out of the final testing area at random. What are the odds that five consecutive cars of same color will come through the test area at any one time? a) 1 in 16 b) 1 in 125 c) 1 in 32 d) 1 in 25 Pattern 15: 1. A triangle is made from a rope. The sides of the triangle are 25 cm, 11 cm and 31 cm. What will be the area of the square made from the same rope? a) 280.5625 b) 240.5625 c) 280.125 d) 240 Solution:add all sides 25+11+31 to get rope length rope length =67,rope is made in to as square So side of square is 67/4=16.75 and so area is 16.75*16.75=280.5625 2. A triangle is made from a rope. The sides of the triangle are 21 cm, 24 cm and 28 cm. What will be the area of the square made from the same rope? a) 280.5625 b) 333.0625 c) 333.0125 d) 400 Pattern 16: 1. What is the distance between the z-intercept from the x-intercept in the equation ax+by+cz+d=0 Solution:intercept form equation 2. What is the distance of the z-intercept from the x-intercept in the equation ax+by+cz=d (I

do not remember the values of a, b, c, d). Pattern 17: 1. A scientist was researching on animal behavior in his lab. He was very interested in analyzing the behavior of bear. For some reason he travelled 1mile in north direction & reached at North Pole. There he saw a bear. He then followed the bear around 1 hr with a speed of 2km/hr in east direction. After that he travelled in south direction & reached at his lab in2 hrs. Then what is the color of the bear? a) White b) Black c) Gray d) Brown Solution is: White. above all the matter is nonsense Pattern 18: 1. Out of 7 children the youngest is boy then find the probability that all the remaining children are boys a)1/64 b)1/32 c)1/128 d)1/256 Pattern 19: 1. Usha bought a linen cloth and rope to build a tent. If the rope is 153 m long and it is to be cut into pieces of 1m length, then how many cuts are to be made to cut the ropes into 153 pieces? a)153 b)152 c)154 d)155 Solution:to make it 153 pieces we have to cut 152 times so obviously after last cut we got 153rd piece

2. A person has to make 146 pieces of a long bar. He takes 4 seconds to cut a piece. What is the total time taken by him in seconds to make 146 pieces? a) 584 b) 580 c) 730 d) 725

Solution: 146 pieces means 145 cuts so for each cut it takes 4 seconds means total time 145*4=580

3. A person has to make 141 pieces of a long bar. He takes 2 seconds to cut a piece. What is the total time taken by him in seconds to make 141 pieces? a) 560 b) 280 c) 112 d) 324

Pattern 20: 1. Spores of a fungus, called late blight, grow and spread infection rapidly. These pathogens were responsible for the Irish potato famine of the mid-19th century. These seem to have attacked the tomato crops in England this year. The tomato crops have reduced and the price of the crop has risen up. The price has already gone up to $45 a box from $27 a box a month ago. How much more would a vegetable vendor need to pay to buy 27 boxes this month over what he would have paid last month? a) $27 b) $18 c) $45 d) $486

Solution: See last 3 lines only answer is 45-27=18 Pattern 21: 1. A Person buys a horse for 15 ponds, after one year he sells it for 20 pounds. After one year, again he buys the same horse at 30 pounds and sells it for 40 pounds. What is the profit for that person? Solution: here we cannot consider depreciation or decay of item accto answer so go acc to answer Totally 5+10=15$profit Pattern 22: 1. John buys a cycle for 31 dollars and given a cheque of amount 35 dollars. Shop Keeper exchanged the cheque with his neighbor and gave change to John. After 2 days, it is known that cheque is bounced. Shop keeper paid the amount to his neighbor. The cost price of cycle is 19 dollars. What is the profit/loss for shop keeper? a)loss 23 b)gain 23 c)gain 54 d)Loss 54 Solution: Loss= Change of money given to john(4$)+actual cycle cost 19$=23$ loss Pattern 23: 1. A lady has fine gloves and hats in her closet- 18 blue, 32 red, and 25 yellow. The lights are out and it is totally dark. In spite of the darkness, she can make out the difference between a hat and a glove. She takes out an item out of the closet only if she is sure that if it is a glove. How many gloves must she take out to make sure she has a pair of each color? a) 50 b) 8 c) 60 d) 42 Solution: I am not able to answer this if i go in procedure way so search in net by searching question. Better see below website http://www.m4maths.com/placement-puzzles.php? My answered questions may be answered there. 2. A lady has fine gloves and hats in her closet- 14 blue, 20 red, and 18 yellow. The lights are out and it is totally dark. In spite of the darkness, she can make out the difference between a hat and a glove. She takes out an item out of the closet only if she is sure that if it is a glove. How many gloves must she take out to make sure she has a pair of each color? 3. A lady has fine gloves and hats in her closet- 13 blue, 27 red, and 40 yellow. The lights are out and it is totally dark. In spite of the darkness, she can make out the difference between a hat and a glove. She takes out an item out of the closet only if she is sure that if it is a glove. How many gloves must she take out to make sure she has a pair of each color?

4. A lady has fine gloves and hats in her closet- 25 blue, 7 red, and 9 yellow. The lights are out and it is totally dark. In spite of the darkness, she can make out the difference between a hat and a glove. She takes out an item out of the closet only if she is sure that if it is a glove. How many gloves must she take out to make sure she has a pair of each color? 5. A lady has fine gloves and hats in her closet- 26 blue, 30 red, and 56 yellow. The lights are out and it is totally dark. In spite of the darkness, she can make out the difference between a hat and a glove. She takes out an item out of the closet only if she is sure that if it is a glove. How many gloves must she take out to make sure she has a pair of each color? Pattern 24: 1. Sangakara and Ponting selects batting by using a dice, but dice is biased. So to resolve, Ponting takes out a coin. What is the probability that coin shows correct option? a)1/2 b)1/6 c)1/12 d)6/10 Solution is ½. 2. There is a die with 10 faces. It is not known that fair or not. 2 captains want to toss die for batting selection. What is the possible solution among the following? a) If no. is odd it is head, if no. is even it is tail b) If no. is odd it is tail, if no. is even it is head c) Toss a die until all the 10 digits appear on top face. And if first no. in the sequence is odd then consider it as tail. If it is even consider it as head. Pattern 25: 1. In a family there are some boys and girls. All boys told that they are having equal no of brothers and sisters and girls told that they are having twice the no. of brothers than sisters. How many boys and girls present in a family? a) 4 boys and 3 girls b) 3 boys and 4 girls c) 2 boys and 5 girls d) 5 boys and 2 girls Pattern 26: 1. 10 men and 10 women are there, they dance with each other, is there possibility that 2 men are dancing with same women and vice versa? a) 22 b) 20 c) 10 d) none 2. There are 100 men and 100 women on the dance floor. They want to dance with each other. Then which of the following statements is always true: a) There are 2 men who danced with equal no. of women’s b) There are 2 women who danced with equal no. of men a) both a and b b)only a c)only b d)none Pattern 27: 1. Middle- earth is a fictional land inhabited by hobbits, elves, dwarves and men. The hobbits and elves are peaceful creatures that prefer slow, silent lives and appreciate nature

and art. The dwarves and the men engage in physical games. The game is as follows. A tournament is one where out of the two teams that play a match, the one that loses get eliminated. The matches are played in different rounds, where in every round; half of the teams get eliminated from the tournament. If there are 8 rounds played in knock out tournament, how many matches were played? a) 257 b) 256 c) 72 d) 255 Solution: Do not know perfect logic 28 2. A game is played between 2 players and one player is declared as winner. All the winners from first round are played in second round. All the winners from second round are played in third round and so on. If 8 rounds are played to declare only one player as winner, how many players are played in first round? a) 256 b) 512 c) 64 d) 128 Pattern 28: 1. Metal strip of width ‘x’ cm. 2 metal strips are placed one over the other, then the combine length of 2 strips is ‘y’. If ‘z’ strips are placed in that manner. What is the final width of that arrangement? 2. A, B, C, D, E are there among A, B, C are boys and D, E are girls D is to the left of A and no girl sits at the middle and at the extemes. Then what is the order of their sittings. Pattern 29: 1. There is 7 friends (A1, A2, A3....A7).If A1 have to have shake with all without repeat. How many handshakes possible? a) 6 b) 21 c) 28 d) 7 Solution: For handshakes type question i am confirming you that if the there are n members are there Handshakes are given in linear manner =n-1(last person cannot give hand shake to first person) Handshakes are given in cyclic manner =n(last person can give hand shake to first person) But i do not know perfectly for repetition it is nc2 2. 49 members attended the party. In that 22 are males, 17 are females. The shake hands between males, females, male and female. Total 12 people given shake hands. How many such kinds of such shake hands are possible? a) 122 b) 66 c) 48 d)1 28 Pattern 30: 1. B is taller than j and 3 pillars. P is shorter than B and 2 pillars is j shorter/taller than P? a) yes b) no c) may be d) can’t find 2. There are 1000 pillars for a temple. 3 friends Linda, Chelsey, Juli visited that temple.

(Some unrelated stuff) Linda is taller than Chelsea and taller than 2 of 1000 pillars. Julia is shorter than Linda. Find the correct sentence? a) Linda is shorter among them b) Chelsea is taller than Julia c) Chelsea is shorter than Julia d) Cannot determine who is taller among Chelsea and Julia Pattern 31: 1. Entry ticket to an exhibition ranges from 1p to 31p. You need to provide exact change at the counter. You have 31p coin. In how many parts will u divide 31p so that u will provide the exact change required and carry as less coins as possible? a) 4 b) 5 c) 6 d) 7 Solution: in btech we studied 8 4 2 1 code for binary system in digital logic proceed in that way for answer it is 16 8 4 2 1 if u add all we will get 31 so 5 coins required

Pattern 32: 1. Peter and Paul are two friends. The sum of their ages is 35 years. Peter is twice as old as Paul was when Peter was as old as Paul is now. What is the present age of Peter? a) 8 b) 20 c) 16 d) 15 Pattern 33: 1. 20 men handshake with each other without repetition. What is the total number of handshakes made? a) 190 b) 210 c) 150 d) 250 2. 10 people are there, they are shaking hands together, how many hand shakes possible, if they are in no pair of cyclic sequence. a) 45 b) 9 c) 12 d) 10 Pattern 34: 1. If there are 2 wheelers and 4 wheelers parked in a school located at the heart of the city, find the number of 4 wheelers parked there if there were 20 two wheelers parked there a) 48 b) 50 c) 52 d) 64 Solution: Proceed with answer is best in question they will give total no of wheels 2. If there are 2 wheelers and 4 wheelers parked in a school located at the heart of the city, find the number of 4 wheelers parked there if there were 58 wheels are parked there a)10 b) 33 c) 22 d) none

Pattern 35: 1. A man whose age is 45 yrs has 3 sons named John, Jill, jack. He went to a park weekly twice. He loves his sons very much. On a certain day he found the shop keepers selling different things. An apple cost 1penny, 2chocalate costs 1penny & 3 bananas cost 1 penny. He has bought equal number of apple, chocolate & banana for each son. If the total amount he invest is 7 penny then how many he has bought from each piece for his son? a) 1app, 1cho, 1 banana b)1 app, 2cho,3 banana c)1app, 2cho, 1banana 2. One person had three children. He had 7 pennies. Find the distribution of the fruits among the three children. A melon costs 1 penny, 2 oranges cost 1 penny and 3 grapes cost 1 penny a)2 melons, 1 orange, 1 grape b) 2 melons, 2 orange, 1 grape c) 1 melons, 2 orange, 1 grape. Pattern 36: 1) The age of the two friends were in the ration of 6:5. If the sum of their ages is 55. Then after how many years their ratio will become 8:7? a) 11 b) 7 c) 10 d) 12 Solution: 6x+5x=55, so x=5, put first ratio after substitution is (6*5)/(5*5) and second ratio is 40/35 So difference in numerators 40-30=10 years 2)The age of the two friends were in the ration of 6:5. If the sum of their ages is 66. Then after how many years their ratio will become 7:6? a) 11 b) 6 c) 10 d) 12 3) The age of the two friends were in the ration of 2:3. If the sum of their ages is 55. Then after how many years their ratio will become 4:5? a) 11 b) 33 c) 22 d) 44 Pattern 37: 1) A volume of 10936 l water is in a container of sphere. How many semisphere of volume 4l each will be required to tranfer all the water into the small semispheres? a) 2812 b) 8231 c) 2734 d) 4222 Pattern 38: 1) A person ismanufacturing a house. He bought 20 ropes of wire which has a density of 300 Kg/m3. The height of the building to be constructed is 40 m. If the capacity of the current passed in the wire is 20 A and the voltage capacity is 80 Volts. Then what will be the opposing force to the current if the wire is used? a) 2 b) 4 c) 8 d) 1600 Solution: ohms law V=IR, Opposing force of current is resistance, R=v/i Pattern 39:

1) A horse chases a pony 2 hours after the pony runs.Horse takes 3 hours to reach the pony.If the average speed of the horse is 81Kmph.Then what is the average speed of the pony? a) 46.4 b) 51 c) 53.4 d) 48.6 Solution: Horse takes 3 hours to cover the distance Pony takes 3+2 =5 hours to cover the same distance, Velocity=distance/time, distance travelled by them is equal it is 81*3=243km, speed of pony=243/5=48.6 3) A horse chases a pony 3 hours after the pony runs. Horse takes 4 hours to reach the pony. If the average speed of the horse is 35 kmph, what is the average speed of the pony Pattern 40: 1)The difference between two no is 9 and the product of the two is 14.What is the square of their sum? a) 120 b) 130 c) 137 d) 145 Solution: a-b=9, ab=14, (a-b)2=a2+b2-2*a*b 2) The sum of two no is 5 and the product of the two is 14.What is the sum of their squares? 3) The sum of the squares of two no is 12 and their sum is 15.Find the product of the two no? Pattern 41: 1) On planet korba, a solar blast has melted the ice caps on its equator. 9 years after the ice melts, tiny planetoids called echina start growing on the rocks. Echina grows in the form of circle, and the relationship between the diameter of this circle and the age of echina is given by the formula d = 4*√ (t-9) for t ≥ 9 where d represents the diameter in mm and t the number of years since the solar blast.Jagan recorded the radius of some echina at a particular spot as 7mm. How many years back did the solar blast occur? a) 17 b) 21.25 c) 12.25 d) 14.05 Solution: radius =7mm, then diameter 2*radius, substitude diameter the in above equation you will get answer Pattern 42: 1) A man goes 50Km north , then turned left walked 40Km, then turned right ? In which direction he is? a) North b) South c) East d) West

Pattern 43: 1) In T.Nagar the building were numbered from 1 to 100.Then how many 4’s will be present in the numbers? a) 18 b) 19 c) 20 d) 21. Solution: You have to count and answer but be prepare with answer 2) In T.Nagar the building were numbered from 1 to 100. Then how many 6’s will be present in the numbers? a) 18 b) 19 c) 20 d) 21 3) In T.Nagar the building were numbered from 1 to 100. Then how many 1’s will be present in the numbers? a) 18 b) 19 c) 20 d) 21 4) In T.Nagar the building were numbered from 1 to 100.Then how many 0’s will be present in the numbers? a) 18 b) 19 c) 20 d) 11 Pattern 44: 1) A number when divided by D leaves a remainder of 8 and when divided by 3D leaves a remainder of 21. What is the remainder left, when twice the number is divided by 3D? a) 13 b) cannot be determined c) 3 d) 42 Pattern 45: 1) Ferrari S.P.A is an Italian sports car manufacturer based in Maranello, Italy. Founded by Enzo Ferrari in 1928 as Scuderia Ferrari, the company sponsored drivers and manufactured race cars before moving into production of street-legal vehicles in 1947 as Ferrari S.P.A. Throughout its history, the company has been noted for its continued participation in racing, especially in Formula One where it has employed great success .Rohit once bought a Ferrari. It could go 4 times as fast as Mohan's old Mercedes. If the speed of Mohan's Mercedes is 35 km/hr and the distance traveled by the Ferrari is 490 km, find the total time taken for Rohit to drive that distance. a) 20.72 b) 3.5 c) 238.25 d) 6.18 Solution: Speed of Ferrari =4*35=140,time=distance/velocity,

2) Ferrari S.P.A is an Italian sports car manufacturer based in Marane llo, Italy. Founded by Enzo Ferrari in 1928 as Scuderia Ferrari, the company sponsored drivers and manufactured race cars before moving into production of street-legal vehicles in 1947 as Ferrari S.P.A. Throughout its history, the company has been noted for its continued participation in racing, especially in Formula One where it has employed great success .Rohit once bought a Ferrari. It could go 4 times as fast as Mohan's old Mercedes. If the speed of Mohan's

Mercedes is 46 km/hr and the distance traveled by the Ferrari is 953 km, find the total time taken for Rohit to drive that distance. a) 20.72 b) 5.18 c) 238.25 d) 6.18

Pattern 46: 1) A sheet of paper has statements numbered from 1 to 70. For all values of n from 1 to 70. Statement n says ' At least n of the statements on this sheet are false. ‘Which statements are true and which are false? a) The even numbered statements are true and the odd numbered are false. b) The odd numbered statements are true and the even numbered are false. c) The first 35 statements are true and the last 35 are false. d) The first 35 statements are false and the last 35 are false. Pattern 47: 1) A man goes north 37km.turns left goes 2km.turns right goes 17km.turns right goes 2km. find distance b/w starting ending point. a) 54 b) 27 c) 81 d) 67 Pattern 48: 1) If there are 30 cans out of them one is poisoned if a person tastes very little he will die within 14 hours so if there are mice to test and 24 hours to test, how many mices are required to find the poisoned can? a) 3 b) 2 c) 6 d) 1 Pattern 49: 1) If a and b are mixed in 3:5 ration and b and c are mixed in 8:5 ration if the final mixture is 35 liters, find the amount of b? A) 13.34 b) 15.73 c) 16.73 d) 9.45 Solution: Solve for a:b:c,then b ratio is b/(a+b+c)*35 Pattern 50: 1) If we subtract a number with y, we get 4 increase of number, once it got divided by y itself... Find that number?? A) 13 b) 12 c) 14 d) 11 Pattern 51: 1) It is the class with the seating arrangement in 4 rows and 8 columns. When the teacher says 'start' the girl who is sitting in first row and first column will say 1, then the next girl sitting behind her will say 4, the next girl sitting behind that girl will say 7, in a particular order each girl is telling a number, the following girls told 10, 13 next turn is yours what u

will say? a) 15 b) 17 c) 14 d) 16 Solution: It is a series 1, 4, 7, 10, 13. Pattern 52: 1) It is dark in my bedroom and I want to get two socks of the same color from my drawer, which contains 24 red and 24 blue socks. How many socks do I have to take from the drawer to get at least two socks of the same color? a) 2 b) 3 c) 48 d) 25 2) Lady has 2 select gloves & hat from a basket. In the dark, she can distinguish hat & gloves. 14 red, 20 blue, 18 green are there. Find probability that any selected glove pair has same color. 3) A lady had fine gloves and hats. 25 blue, 7 red and 9 gey. She had to select a pair among them. But there was no light so she had to select in darkness the correct pair with a glove and a hat. Therefore how many combinations of same color she can select? Pattern 53: 1) If the Valentine’s Day in 2005 falls on Monday, then on which day will the Valentine’s Day fall on 2010? A) Saturday b) Thursday c) Wednesday d) Sunday Pattern 54: 1. A person run from A to B.He took ¼ of the time less to reach B when compare to run at normal Speed.Then how many percentage he has increased his speed? a) 40 b) 44.4 c) 33.3 d) 22.2 Solution: i do not know perfectly but i have simple logic,1-(1/4)=(3/4),then reverse it so it is 4/3=1.333,1.33-1=33.33 like this 2. An athlete decides to run the same distance in 1/4th less time that she usually took. By how much percent will she have to increase her average speed? a) 40 b) 44.4 c) 33.3 d) 22.2 Pattern 55: 1. In a building there are 5 rooms.Each having a equal area .The length of the room is 4m and breadht is 5 m.The height of the rooms are 2m. If 17 bricks are needed to make a square meter then how many bricks are needed to make the floor of a particular room? a) 320 b) 380 c) 340 d) 300

Solution: area of the room is length*breadth=4*5=20m2, For one square meter it takes 17 bricks, For 20m2 total no of bricks are 17*20=340, Pattern 56: 1. One man want to build a wall .The length and breadth of the wall are 20 and 30 respectively. He need 35 bricks for one square centimeter then how many bricks he need? a) 21,500 b) 30,000 c) 21,000 d) 20,000 Pattern 57: 1. In a hotel we can order two types of varities, but we can make 6 more variteis in home. One can choose the four varities with two from hotel as must. Find how many ways one can order. a) 14 b) 15 c) 56 d) 28 Pattern 58: 1. If a pipe can fill the tank within 6hrs.But due to leak it takes 30 min more. Now the tank is full then how much time will it take to empty the tank throught the leak? a) 78 b) 56 c) 66 d) 59 Pattern 59: 1. The bacteria has the probability of split into 3 and probability to die is 1/3rd of the total bacteria.Let the probability is P.Some of them survived with probability 1/5.Then which among the following relation is true? a)P=1/3+1/5*3 b)P=1/5*(1/8-3) 2. There is a bacteria which has the probability of die 1/3 of its total number or it may tripled. Find out the probability A. P=1/3+(2/3*p^3) B. P=2/3+(2/3*p^3) C. P=2/3+(1/3*p^3) D P=2/3+(2/3*p^3) Pattern 60: 1. There was a grand mother in a village who had a grand child.Upon asking her grand childs age she told that she is as older as many days old as her daughters age in weeks and as many days as her own age in years.The sum of the three is 130.then how old is the child.? Pattern 61: 1) In T.Nagar the building were numbered from 1 to 100.Then how many 4’s will be present in the numbers? a)18 b)19 c)20 d)21 2) In Tnagar many buildings were under residential category.for buildings they number as 1 to 100. For shops, corporation numbered between 150 and 200 only prime numbers. how

many time 6 will appear in building numbering? Pattern 62: 1) Amrith told to Anand in front of a Photo that “He is the son of my father’s son”.Find who is in the picture if amrith have no brothers and sisters. a) Amrith himself b) Amrith’s Uncle c) Amrith’s Father d) Amrith’s son 2) One person has no siblings and says,” the guy in the photo is the only son of my father ‘s son”. What is the relation of the guy to the person? Pattern 63: 1) One grand father has 3 grand children two of the age difference is 3.Eldest child age is 3 times the youngest childs age and the eldest child age is two year more than the sum of other two children. Find what is the age of the elders child? a) 18 b) 22 c) 30 d) 10. Solution: there are 3 childs,let the age of younger be x,elder be 3x,so the middle one be m,3x=2+x+m,then we have a-b=3 or b-c=3,or a-c=3, then for answer we have to go via options, substitute that in above equations 2) One grandfather has three grandchildren, two of their age difference is 3, eldest child age is 3 times youngest child’s age and eldest child’s age is two times of sum of other two children. What is the age of eldest child? 3) One grandfather has three grandchildren, two of their age difference is 3, eldest child age is 3 times youngest child’s age and eldest child’s age is two times of sum of other two children. What is the age of eldest child? Pattern 64: 1) In a school, for a student out of 100 he got 74 of average for 7 subjects and he got 79 marks in the 8th subject. what is the average of all the subject? a) 76.251 b) 80.25 c) 74.265 d) 74.625 Solution: Total marks=74*7=518, then average=(518+79)/8=74.625 Pattern 65: 1) 3 persons a,b,c were there A always says truth,B lies on Monday,tusday,& Wednesday.but C lies on thrusday,Friday & saturday .one day A said”that B & C said to A that” B said “yesterday way one of the days when I lies”,C said that”yesterday way one of the days when I lies too”.then which day was that? a) Sunday b) Thursday c) Saturday d) Tuesday Pattern 66:

1) Which is the smallest no which divides 2880 and gives a perfect square? a) 4 b) 9 c) 3 d) 5 Solution: For answer solve via options Pattern 67: 1) How many 9 digit numbers are possible by using the digits 1,2,3,4,5 which are divisible by 4 if the repetition is allowed? a)57 b)56 c)59 d)58 2) how many 13 digit numbers are possible by using the digits 1,2,3,4,5 which are divisible by 4 if repetition of digits is allowed? 3) By using 1,2,3,4,5,how many 5 digit no. can be formed which is divisible by 4,repetation of no. is allowed?? 4) Form 8 digit numbers from by using 1, 2,3,4,5 with repetition is allowed and must be divisible by4? 5) How many of 14 digit numbers we can make with 1,2,3,4,5 that are divisible by 4. Repetitions allowed. Pattern 68: 1) Consider two tumblers, the first containing Water and next contains coffee. Suppose you take one spoon of water out of the first tumbler and pour it into the second tumbler. After moving you take one spoon of the mixture from the second tumbler and pour it back into the first tumbler . Which one of the following statement holds now? a) There is less coffee in the first tumbler than water in the second tumblers b) There is more coffee in the firs tumbler than water in the second tumbler c) There is as much coffee in the first tumbler as there is water in the second tumbler d)None of the statements holds true Solution: Think wisely and answer these are asked in my paper 2 or 3 questions 2) Two bowls are taken, one contains water and another contains tea.one spoon of water is added to second bowl and mixed well, and a spoon of mixture is taken from second bowl and added to the second bowl. Which statement will hold good for the above? Pattern 69: 1) Six friends decide to share a big cake. Since all of them like the cake, they begin quarreling who gets to first cut and have a piece of the cake. One friend suggests that they have a blindfold friend choose from well shuffled set of cards numbered one to six. You check and find that this method works as it should simulating a fair throw of a die. You check by performing multiple simultaneous trials of picking the cards blindfold and throwing a die. You note that the number shown by the method of picking up a card and throwing a real

world die, sums to a number between 2 and 12. Which total would be likely to appear more often – 8,9 or 10? a) 8 b) All are equally likely c) 9 d) 10

Solution: Calculate how many times 8,9,10 will come when we throw 2 dice, and answer Pattern 70:

Q1. Given a collection of points P in the plane, a 1-set is a point in P that can be separated from the rest by a line, .i.e the point lies on one side of the line while the others lie on the other side. The number of 1-sets of P is denoted by n1(P). The minimum value of n1(P) over all configurations P of 5 points in the plane in general position (.i.e no three points in P lie on a line) is a)3 b)5 c) 2 d)1 Ans: 5 For below questions, answers i am not sure whether they are correct or not you have to solve urself

Q2. The citizens of planet nigiet are 8 fingered and have thus developed their decimal system in base 8. A certain street in nigiet contains 1000 (in base 8) buildings numbered 1 to 1000. How many 3s are used in numbering these buildings? a) 54 b) 64 c) 265 d) 192 Ans: 192

Some times base value is chang like: 9finger, 1 to 100(base 9) Q3. Given 3 lines in the plane such that the points of intersection form a triangle with sides of length 20, 20 and 30, the number of points equidistant from all the 3 lines is a)1 b)3 c)4 d)0 Q4. Hare in the other. The hare starts after the tortoise has covered 1/5 of its distance and that too leisurely3. A hare and a tortoise have a race along a circle of 100 yards diameter. The tortoise goes in one direction and the. The hare and tortoise meet when the hare has covered only 1/8 of the distance. By what factor should the hare increase its speed so as to tie the race? a) 37.80 b)8 c) 40 d) 5 Ans: 37.80 Q5. Here 10 programers, type 10 lines with in 10 minutes then 60lines can type within 60 minutes. How many programmers are needed? a) 16 b) 6 c) 10 d) 60

Solution:(men*time)/work) Ans: 10 This type of Q's repeated 4times for me but values are different. Q6. Alok and Bhanu play the following min-max game. Given the expression N = 9 + X + Y - Z Where X, Y and Z are variables representing single digits (0 to 9), Alok would like to maximize N while Bhanu would like to minimize it. Towards this end, Alok chooses a single digit number and Bhanu substitutes this for a variable of her choice (X, Y or Z). Alok then chooses the next value and Bhanu, the variable to substitute the value. Finally Alok proposes the value for the remaining variable. Assuming both play to their optimal strategies, the value of N at the end of the game would be a) 0 b) 27 c) 18 d) 20 The Q's concept is same but the equation of N's is changing. Q7. Alice and Bob play the following coins-on-a-stack game. 20 coins are stacked one above the other. One of them is a special (gold) coin and the rest are ordinary coins. The goal is to bring the gold coin to the top by repeatedly moving the topmost coin to another position in the stack.

Alice starts and the players take turns. A turn consists of moving the coin on the top to a position i below the top coin (0 = i = 20). We will call this an i-move (thus a 0-move implies doing nothing). The proviso is that an i-move cannot be repeated; for example once a player makes a 2-move, on subsequent turns neither player can make a 2-move. If the gold coin happens to be on top when it's a player's turn then the player wins the game. Initially, the gold coinis the third coin from the top. Then a) In order to win, Alice's first move should be a 1-move. b) In order to win, Alice's first move should be a 0-move. c) In order to win, Alice's first move can be a 0-move or a 1-move. d) Alice has no winning strategy. Ans: d Q8. For the FIFA world cup, Paul the octopus has been predicting the winner of each match with amazing success. It is rumored that in a match between 2 teams A and B, Paul picks A with the same probability as A's chances of winning. Let's assume such rumors to be true and that in a match between Ghana and Bolivia, Ghana the stronger team has a probability of 2/3 of winning the game. What is the probability that Paul will correctly pick the winner of the Ghana-Bolivia game? a)1/9 b)4/9 c)5/9 d)2/3 Ans: 5/9 Q9. 36 people {a1, a2, ..., a36} meet and shake hands in a circular fashion. In other words,

there are totally 36 handshakes involving the pairs, {a1, a2}, {a2, a3}, ..., {a35, a36}, {a36, a1}. Then size of the smallest set of people such that the rest have shaken hands with at least one person in the set is a)12 b)11 c)13 d)18 Ans: 18 Q10. After the typist writes 12 letters and addresses 12 envelopes, she inserts the letters randomly into the envelopes (1 letter per envelope). What is the probability that exactly 1 letter is inserted in an improper envelope? a)1/12 b)0 c)12/212 d)11/12 Ans: b Q11. A sheet of paper has statements numbered from 1 to 40. For each value of n from 1 to 40, statement n says "At least and of the statements on this sheet are true." Which statements are true and which are false? a)The even numbered statements are true and the odd numbered are false. b)The first 26 statements are false and the rest are true. c)The first 13 statements are true and the rest are false. d)The odd numbered statements are true and the even numbered are false. Ans:c Q12. There are two boxes, one containing 10 red balls and the other containing 10 green balls. You are allowed to move the balls between the boxes so that when you choose a box at random and a ball at random from the chosen box, the probability of getting a red ball is maximized. This maximum probability is a)1/2 b)14/19 c)37/38 d)3/4 Ans: 14/19 Q13. A circular dartboard of radius 1 foot is at a distance of 20 feet from you. You throw a dart at it and it hits the dartboard at some point Q in the circle. What is the probability that Q is closer to the center of the circle than the periphery? a) 0.75 b) 1 c) 0.5 d) 0.25 Ans: d Q14. 9. A and B play a game of dice between them. The dice consist of colors on their faces (instead of numbers). When the dice are thrown, A wins if both show the same color; otherwise B wins. One die has 4 red face and 2 blue faces. How many red and blue faces should the other die have if the both players have the same chances of winning?

a) 3 red and 3 blue faces b) 2 red and remaining blue c) 6 red and 0 blue d) 4 red and remaining blue

Ans: a Q15. On planet zorba, a solar blast has melted the ice caps on its equator. 8 years after the ice melts, tiny plantoids called echina start growing on the rocks. echina grows in the form of a circle and the relationship between the diameter of this circle and the age of echina is given by the formula d = 4 * sqrt (t – 8)for t = 8 Where the represents the diameter in mm and t the number of years since the solar blast. Jagan recorded the time of some echina at a particular spot is 24 years then what is diameter? a) 8 b) 16 c) 25 d) 21 Ans: 16 Q16. A sheet of paper has statements numbered from 1 to 40. For all values of n from 1 to 40, statement n says: 'Exactly n of the statements on this sheet are false.' Which statements are true and which are false? a) The even numbered statements are true and the odd numbered statements are false. b) The odd numbered statements are true and the even numbered statements are false. c) All the statements are false. d) The 39th statement is true and the rest are false. Ans: d Q17. Alok and Bhanu play the following coins in a circle game. 99 coins are arranged in a circle with each coin touching two other coin. Two of the coins are special and the rest are ordinary. Alok starts and the players take turns removing an ordinary coin of their choice from the circle and bringing the other coins closer until they again form a (smaller) circle. The goal is to bring the special coins adjacent to each other and the first player to do so wins the game. Initially the special coins are separated by two ordinary coins O1 and O2. Which of the following is true? a) In order to win, Alok should remove O1 on his first turn. b) In order to win, Alok should remove one of the coins different from O1 and O2 on his first turn. c) In order to win, Alok should remove O2 on his first turn. d) Alok has no winning strategy. Ans: d Q18. Two pipes A and B fill at A certain rate B is filled at 10, 20, 40, 80. If 1/4 of B if filled in 21 hours what time it will take to get completely filled Ans: 23 Q19. Find average speed if a man travels at speed of 24kmph up and 36kmph down at an altitude of 200m. Formula is 2xy/(x+y).

Q20. One grandfather has three grandchildren, two of their age difference is 3, eldest child age is 3 times youngest child’s age and eldest child’s age is two times of sum of other two children. What is the age of eldest child? Ans: 18 Q21. Ferrari is leading car manufacturer.*Ferrari S.p.A.* is an Italian sports car. It has enjoyed great success. If Mohan's Ferrari is 3 times faster than his old Mercedes wich gave him 35kmph if Mohan travelled 490 km in his ferrari the how much time(hours) he took? Easy one try it. Q22. By using 1,2,3,4,5, how many 12 digit no. can be formed which is divisible by 4, repetation of no. is allowed? Ans: (5)^11 Q23. The cost 1 plum is 1 cent, 2 apples is 1 cent, 3 cashew is 1 cent. If father buys same amount of fruits for his 3 sons spending 7 cent then what amount of fruit each child will get? Ans: 1plum, 2apples, 1cashew Q24. There are some 2 wheelers and 4 wheelers parked total number of wheels present is 240 then how many 4 wheelers were there Ans: For this question answer is deduced from the options. Q25. One day Alice meets pal and byte in fairyland. She knows that pal lies on Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays and tells the truth on the other days of the week byte, on the other hand, lies on Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays, but tells the truth on the other days of the week. Now they make the following statements to Alice – pal. Yesterday was one of those days when I lie byte. Yesterday was one of those days when I lie too. What day is it? a) Thursday b) Tuesday c) Monday d) Sunday Ans: a Before going to the TCS Aptitude test please write the mock tests which are provided by the TCS it gives boost to you. For the Aptitude prepare the R.S. Aggarwal & Freshersworld.com TCS model papers. For Technical round be aware of basic funds of your core subjects and C, C++. If you crack the both aptitude & Technical round you are 75% selected. In MR they give any context situation how can you resolve it and also little much knowledge about current affairs thats enough. In HR prepare the interview Questions. Be confident in all the rounds. Don't be tenz the HRs are very cool & friendly. Aptitude test:(35 Questions, 80 mins, online test)

Q1. Given a collection of points P in the plane, a 1-set is a point in P that can be separated from the rest by a line, .i.e the point lies on one side of the line while the others lie on the other side. The number of 1-sets of P is denoted by n1(P). The minimum value of n1(P) over all configurations P of 5 points in the plane in general position(.i.e no three points in P lie on a line) is a)3 b)5 c) 2 d)1 Ans: 5 Q2. The citizens of planet nigiet are 8 fingered and have thus developed their decimal system in base 8. A certain street in nigiet contains 1000 (in base 8) buildings numbered 1 to 1000. How many 3s are used in numbering these buildings? a) 54 b) 64 c) 265 d) 192 Ans: 192 Some times base value is chang like: 9finger, 1 to 100(base 9) Q3. Given 3 lines in the plane such that the points of intersection form a triangle with sides of length 20, 20 and 30, the number of points equidistant from all the 3 lines is a)1 b)3 c)4 d)0 Q4. Hare in the other. The hare starts after the tortoise has covered 1/5 of its distance and that too leisurely3. A hare and a tortoise have a race along a circle of 100 yards diameter. The tortoise goes in one direction and the. The hare and tortoise meet when the hare has covered only 1/8 of the distance. By what factor should the hare increase its speed so as to tie the race? a) 37.80 b)8 c) 40 d) 5 Ans: 37.80 Q5. Here 10 programers, type 10 lines with in 10 minutes then 60lines can type within 60 minutes. How many programmers are needed? a) 16 b) 6 c) 10 d) 60 Ans: 10 This type of Q's repeated 4times for me but values are different. Q6. Alok and Bhanu play the following min-max game. Given the expression N = 9 + X + Y - Z Where X, Y and Z are variables representing single digits (0 to 9), Alok would like to maximize N while Bhanu would like to minimize it. Towards this end, Alok chooses a single digit number and Bhanu substitutes this for a variable of her choice (X, Y or Z). Alok then chooses the next value and

Bhanu, the variable to substitute the value. Finally Alok proposes the value for the remaining variable. Assuming both play to their optimal strategies, the value of N at the end of the game would be a) 0 b) 27 c) 18 d) 20 The Q's concept is same but the equation of N's is changing. Q7. Alice and Bob play the following coins-on-a-stack game. 20 coins are stacked one above the other. One of them is a special (gold) coin and the rest are ordinary coins. The goal is to bring the gold coin to the top by repeatedly moving the topmost coin to another position in the stack. Alice starts and the players take turns. A turn consists of moving the coin on the top to a position i below the top coin (0 = i = 20). We will call this an i-move (thus a 0-move implies doing nothing). The proviso is that an i-move cannot be repeated; for example once a player makes a 2-move, on subsequent turns neither player can make a 2-move. If the gold coin happens to be on top when it's a player's turn then the player wins the game. Initially, the gold coinis the third coin from the top. Then a) In order to win, Alice's first move should be a 1-move. b) In order to win, Alice's first move should be a 0-move. c) In order to win, Alice's first move can be a 0-move or a 1-move. d) Alice has no winning strategy. Ans: d Q8. For the FIFA world cup, Paul the octopus has been predicting the winner of each match with amazing success. It is rumored that in a match between 2 teams A and B, Paul picks A with the same probability as A's chances of winning. Let's assume such rumors to be true and that in a match between Ghana and Bolivia, Ghana the stronger team has a probability of 2/3 of winning the game. What is the probability that Paul will correctly pick the winner of the Ghana-Bolivia game? a)1/9 b)4/9 c)5/9 d)2/3 Ans: 5/9 Q9. 36 people {a1, a2, ..., a36} meet and shake hands in a circular fashion. In other words, there are totally 36 handshakes involving the pairs, {a1, a2}, {a2, a3}, ..., {a35, a36}, {a36, a1}. Then size of the smallest set of people such that the rest have shaken hands with at least one person in the set is a)12 b)11 c)13 d)18 Ans: 18 Q10. After the typist writes 12 letters and addresses 12 envelopes, she inserts the letters randomly into the envelopes (1 letter per envelope). What is the probability that exactly 1 letter is inserted in an improper envelope?

a)1/12 b)0 c)12/212 d)11/12 Ans: b Q11. A sheet of paper has statements numbered from 1 to 40. For each value of n from 1 to 40, statement n says "At least and of the statements on this sheet are true." Which statements are true and which are false? a)The even numbered statements are true and the odd numbered are false. b)The first 26 statements are false and the rest are true. c)The first 13 statements are true and the rest are false. d)The odd numbered statements are true and the even numbered are false. Ans:c Q12. There are two boxes, one containing 10 red balls and the other containing 10 green balls. You are allowed to move the balls between the boxes so that when you choose a box at random and a ball at random from the chosen box, the probability of getting a red ball is maximized. This maximum probability is a)1/2 b)14/19 c)37/38 d)3/4 Ans: 14/19 Q13. A circular dartboard of radius 1 foot is at a distance of 20 feet from you. You throw a dart at it and it hits the dartboard at some point Q in the circle. What is the probability that Q is closer to the center of the circle than the periphery? a) 0.75 b) 1 c) 0.5 d) 0.25 Ans: d Q14. 9. A and B play a game of dice between them. The dice consist of colors on their faces (instead of numbers). When the dice are thrown, A wins if both show the same color; otherwise B wins. One die has 4 red face and 2 blue faces. How many red and blue faces should the other die have if the both players have the same chances of winning? a) 3 red and 3 blue faces b) 2 red and remaining blue c) 6 red and 0 blue d) 4 red and remaining blue Ans: a Q15. On planet zorba, a solar blast has melted the ice caps on its equator. 8 years after the ice melts, tiny plantoids called echina start growing on the rocks. echina grows in the form of a circle and the relationship between the diameter of this circle and the age of echina is given by the formula d = 4 * sqrt (t – 8)for t = 8 Where the represents the diameter in mm and t the number of years since the solar blast.

Jagan recorded the time of some echina at a particular spot is 24 years then what is diameter? a) 8 b) 16 c) 25 d) 21 Ans: 16 Q16. A sheet of paper has statements numbered from 1 to 40. For all values of n from 1 to 40, statement n says: 'Exactly n of the statements on this sheet are false.' Which statements are true and which are false? a) The even numbered statements are true and the odd numbered statements are false. b) The odd numbered statements are true and the even numbered statements are false. c) All the statements are false. d) The 39th statement is true and the rest are false. Ans: d Q17. Alok and Bhanu play the following coins in a circle game. 99 coins are arranged in a circle with each coin touching two other coin. Two of the coins are special and the rest are ordinary. Alok starts and the players take turns removing an ordinary coin of their choice from the circle and bringing the other coins closer until they again form a (smaller) circle. The goal is to bring the special coins adjacent to each other and the first player to do so wins the game. Initially the special coins are separated by two ordinary coins O1 and O2. Which of the following is true? a) In order to win, Alok should remove O1 on his first turn. b) In order to win, Alok should remove one of the coins different from O1 and O2 on his first turn. c) In order to win, Alok should remove O2 on his first turn. d) Alok has no winning strategy. Ans: d Q18. Two pipes A and B fill at A certain rate B is filled at 10,20,40,80,. If 1/4 of B if filled in 21 hours what time it will take to get completely filled Ans: 23 Q19. Find average speed if a man travels at speed of 24kmph up and 36kmph down at an altitude of 200m. Formula is 2xy/(x+y). Q20. One grandfather has three grandchildren, two of their age difference is 3, eldest child age is 3 times youngest child’s age and eldest child’s age is two times of sum of other two children. What is the age of eldest child? Ans: 18 Q21. Ferrari is leading car manufacturer.*Ferrari S.p.A.* is an Italian sports car. It has enjoyed great success. If Mohan's Ferrari is 3 times faster than his old Mercedes wich gave him 35kmph if Mohan travelled 490 km in his ferrari the how much time(hours) he took?

Easy one try it. Q22. By using 1,2,3,4,5, how many 12 digit no. can be formed which is divisible by 4, repetation of no. is allowed? Ans: (5)^11 Q23. The cost 1 plum is 1 cent, 2 apples is 1 cent, 3 cashew is 1 cent. If father buys same amount of fruits for his 3 sons spending 7 cent then what amount of fruit each child will get? Ans: 1plum, 2apples, 1cashew Q24. There are some 2 wheelers and 4 wheelers parked total number of wheels present is 240 then how many 4 wheelers were there Ans: For this question answer is deduced from the options. Q25. One day Alice meets pal and byte in fairyland. She knows that pal lies on Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays and tells the truth on the other days of the week byte, on the other hand, lies on Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays, but tells the truth on the other days of the week. Now they make the following statements to Alice – pal. Yesterday was one of those days when I lie byte. Yesterday was one of those days when I lie too. What day is it? a) Thursday b) Tuesday c) Monday d) Sunday Ans: a

1) Horse started to chase dog as it relieved stable two hours ago. And horse started to ran

with average speed 22km/hour, horse crossed 10 mts road and two small pounds with

depth 3m, and it crossed two small street with 200 mts length. After travelling 6 hrs, 2 hours

after sunset it got dog. Compute the speed of dog?

Ans: As we have speed and travel time of horse, we can get distance travelled by it.

Hence d = 22*6 = 132km,

Exactly this 132km was travelled by dog in 8 hours (as it started two hours earlier).

Hence speed of dog = 132/8 = 16.5km/hr

Ans: 16.5km/hr.

2) (There was a long story, I'll cut short it). There are 5 materials to make a perfume: Lilac, Balsamic, Lemon, and Woody and MI mosaic. To make a perfume that is in demand the following conditions are to be followed: Lilac and Balsamic go together. Woody and MI mosaic go together; Woody and Balsamic never go together. Lemon can be added with any material. (Actually they had also mentioned how much amount of one can be added with how much quantity of the other; but that's not needed for the question.) All of the following combinations are possible to make a perfume except: 1) Balsamic and Lilac 2) Woody and Lemon

3) MI mosaic and Woody 4) MI mosaic and Lilac

3) John buys a cycle for 31 dollars and given a cheque of amount 35 dollars. Shop Keeper exchanged the cheque with his neighbour and gave change to John. After 2 days, it is known that cheque is bounced. Shop keeper paid the amount to his neighbor. The cost price of cycle is 19 dollars. What is the profit/loss for shop keeper?

Ans: Is 23(cost price 19 + change given 4).

4) A game is played between 2 players and one player is declared as winner. All the winners from first round are played in second round. All the winners from second round are played in third round and so on. If 8 rounds are played to declare only one player as winner, how many players are played in first round

Ans: Is 28.

5) Entry ticket to an exhibition ranges from 1p to 31p. You need to provide exact change at the counter. You have 31p coin. In how many parts will you divide 31p so that you will provide the exact change required and carry as less coins as possible?

a) 22 b) 31 c) 6 d) 32

Ans: Is 6

6) There are 11 boys in a family. Youngest child is a boy. Probability is 1 that of all are boys out of?

a) 2 b) 2! C) 2048 d) 1024

Ans:1024

7) Two bowls are taken, one contains water and another contains tea.one spoon of water is added to second bowl and mixed well, and a spoon of mixture is taken from second bowl and added to the second bowl. Which statement will hold good for the above?

Ans: Second liquid in first bowl is smaller than the first mixture in second bowl)

8) Ferrari S.P.A is an Italian sports car manufacturer based in Maranello, Italy. Founded by Enzo Ferrari in 1928 as Scuderia Ferrari , the company sponsored drivers and manufactured race cars before moving into production of street-legal vehicles in 1947 as Feraari S.P.A. Throughout its history, the company has been noted for its continued participation in racing, especially in Formula One where it has employed great success .Rohit once bought a Ferrari . It could go 4 times as fast as Mohan's old Mercedes. If the speed of Mohan's Mercedes is 46 km/hr and the distance traveled by the Ferrari is 953 km, find the total time taken for Rohit to drive that distance.

a) 20.72 b) 5.18 c) 238.25 d) 6.18

Ans: b

9) A sheet of paper has statements numbered from 1 to 70. For all values of n from 1 to 70. Statement n says 'At least n of the statements on this sheet are false.' Which statements are true and which are false?

a) The even numbered statements are true and the odd numbered are false. b) The odd numbered statements are true and the even numbered are false. c) The first 35 statements are true and the last 35 are false. d) The first 35 statements are false and the last 35 are false.

Ans: d

10) Middle earth is a fictional land inhabited by Hobbits, Elves, dwarves and men. The Hobbits and the Elves are peaceful creatures who prefer slow, silent lives and appreciate nature and art. The dwarves and the men engage in physical games. The game is as follows . A tournol is one where out of the two teams that play a match, the one that loses get eliminated. The matches are played in different rounds where in every round , half of the teams get eliminated from the tournament. If there are 8 rounds played in a knock-out tournol how many matches were played? a) 257 b) 256 c) 72 d) 255

Ans: b

11) A lady has fine gloves and hats in her closet- 18 blue- 32 red and 25 black. The lights are out and it is totally dark inspite of the darkness. She can make out the difference between a hat and a glove. She takes out an item out of the closet only if she is sure that if it is a glove. How many gloves must she take out to make sure she has a pair of each colour? a) 50 b) 8 c) 60 d) 42

Ans:50

12) Alok and Bhanu play the following coins in a circle game. 99 coins are arranged in a circle with each coin touching two other coin. Two of the coins are special and the rest are ordinary. Alok starts and the players take turns removing an ordinary coin of their choice from the circle and bringing the other coins closer until they again form a (smaller) circle. The goal is to bring the special coins adjacent to each other and the first player to do so wins the game. Initially the special coins are separated by two ordinary coins O1 and O2. Which of the following is true?

a) In order to win, Alok should remove O1 on his first turn. b) In order to win, Alok should remove one of the coins different from O1 and O2 on his first turn. c) In order to win, Alok should remove O2 on his first turn. d) Alok has no winning strategy.

13) There is a die with 10 faces. It is not known that fair or not. 2 captains want to toss die for batting selection. What is the possible solution among the following?

a) If no. is odd it is head, if no. is even it is tail b) If no. is odd it is tail, if no. is even it is head c) Toss a die until all the 10 digits appear on top face. And if first no. in the sequence is odd then consider it as tail. If it is even consider it as head. I didn’t remembered last option and I don’t know answer.

14) Ferrari is leading car manufacturer.*Ferrari S.p.A.* is an Italian sports car. It has enjoyed great success. If Mohan's Ferrari is 3 times faster than his old Mercedes wich gave him 35kmph if Mohan travelled 490 km in his ferrari the hw much time(hours) he took? a) 8 b)4 c) 7 d) 7.33

(Options may be different)

15) In an exam there are total 12 questions. From the first 4 questions a student has to answer 2 questions which are compulsory. And he has to answer 5 from the rest. In how many ways he can answer questions. Ans: 4c2*8c5 ( it is combination problem)

16) A gun has a nozzle velocity 330 mt/sec. It has to meet a target which is at a distance 5km. It retards at a rate of 8 mt/sec/sec while travelling in air. Find the velocity at a place where the bullet will meet the target. Ans: You=330mt/sec s=5km=5000mt apply formula v2=u2-2as V=?

17) For school children a software was designed.\In that \software one monkey has to choose balloons. If a monkey chooses 2 at a time and continues picking then 1 baloon is left. If it picks 5 at a time then the remaining is zero,if it picks 6 at a time then remaining is 3. What is the total number of balloons?

a) 72 b) 75 c) 79) d) 80

Ans: 75 ( Just devide the choosing patten in the number and check whether you are getting the remainder as the remaining value). If it chooses 6 at a time and continues then 75-(12*6)=3 which satisfies the condition

18) There are two statements. There is also a question. Choose 1 if the question can be answered by using either one. Choose 2 if the question can be answered using both the statements. Choose 3 if the question can not be answered using these two statements

Statement1: Avinash spends 30% on house rent, 20% on children’s education,40% on foods Statement 2: Pritam spends 20% on house rent, 45% on children’s education,20% on food Question: If pritam spends more than avinash on foods who spends more on children’s education?

The question can be answered by

a) 1 b) 2 c)3 Ans: c

19) A hollow space on earth surface is to be filled. Total cost of filling is Rs20000. The cost of filling per mt3 is Rs 225 .how many times a size of 3 mt3 soil is required to fill the hollow space? Ans: 20000/225=88.88

88.88/3=29.62

So 30 times of 3 mt3 is required to fill the space completely

20) There are different things like p,q,r,s,t,u,v. We can take p and q together. If r and s are taken together then t must has to be taken. u and v can be taken together.v can be taken with p or s. every thing can be taken together except a)p b)t c)v d)s

Ans: t

21) New town is straight to the north of New york. A high way M runs from newtown making an angle of 61 degree south east. from newyork there is also an high way N which runs northeast 61 degrees.if high ways M and N are straight then findout the acute angle made at their intersection point.

Ans: 180-(61+61)=58 (the high ways make a triangle the addition of 3 angles of a triangle is 180)

22) There are 7 meetings A,B,C,D,E,F,G .one meeting should happen in one day. Meeting A is on Sunday c and d meetings should happen after B. Then E ,F,G meetings should occur in three conjucutive days. And meeting g is on Saturday. Then meeting the should occur on which day? a) sun b) mon c)wed d)fri

Ans: c

23) There are 9 weights like 16,19.156.26, 106,15,24,36 (in kg). There are three persons like rohit, sameer and imran. each lifts 3 types of weights. Rohit”s total lifted weight is 2 times than the weight lifted by rohit. What is the weight lifted by imran?

Ans: Total weight=16+19+156+26+106+15+24+36=398 kg Suppose option is y kg lifted by imran(choose from option) then 3x+y=398 =>x=(398-y)/3 here x should be a whole number then y is the weight lifted by imran.

Interview:

Total 26 students were shortlisted in written test and were undergone technical interview followed by HR interview at single place. Before interview everybody was given a form and they told how to fill the form). There were around 8 panels consisting 0f 2 members (1 technical member(male) and 1 HR member(female)). I filled the form and I was the last one to be interviewed AT 6 pm.

Me: Good evening mam, Good evening sir Technical hr: Good evening, me Asutosh and handshake with me

Me: Also handshaked and told myself bhabani sankar and stood around 5 second Technical hr: Please sit down

Me: Sat and told thank you sir Technical: You are from Orissa

Me: Ya Technical: How far cuttack is from your house?

Me: It is about 60 kms from cuttack Technical: What you know except C and C++?(I wrote C and C++ as my language in CV)

Me: I know computer network and mobile communication. Technical: Ok. You know C and C++ very well?

Me: Actually I am from Electronics background. I had to give importance on my branch subjects in 4 years. as software was my dream so I was always in touch with C and C++. I know the basics of C and C++ very well Technical: Tell me the basic difference between C and C++ Me: Told about 4 points about C and C++ and difference between them

Technical: What is header file and how it works? Me: Told confidently

Technical: Whats the work of printf()? Me: Told

Technical: Whats the work of scanf()? Me: Told

Technical: You know while and do while loop? Me: ya I know

Technical: Ok write syntax of “ for” loop Me: for(i=0;i<=0,i++) actually I forgot the semicolons between them. He help me

Technical: Can we write i+++? Me: Yes we can write it in C program but we cant write in for loop

HR: Ok if I will write simplely as for(; ;) will it show the output? Me: No I will not show as there is not any condition within brackets

HR: Why? Syantax is correct. Right? It will compile or not? Then what will be the output? Me: It will print a garbage value

HR: Where it will find a garbage value Me: There may be previously stored garbage value

HR:Ok you know C++? Me: I know the special features of C++

HR: What is inheritance? Me: Told confidently

HR: What is polymorphism? Me: Told with confusion

HR: Give examples Me: Unable to give

HR: What the difference between class and object? Me: Told with examples

HR: What is recursive function? Me: Sorry I dony know the detail about recursive function

HR: Ok just tell what is recursive function Me: Told(the function that calls itself)

HR: Can you write a program to find factorial of a number using recursive function? Me: Sir, I have not prepared abt this program

HR: Which program you can write in C Me: I can swap two variables without using 3rd variable

HR: Ok write. I was trying to wrting the whole program but he told to write only the logic Me:-a=a+b b=a-b a=a-b

HR: Ok explain using a =5 b=10 M: I explained

HR: You know data structure? Was it in your course? Me: Yes I kone the basics

HR: What is linked list, what is stack Me: Explained

HR: What is difference between stack and queue? Me: Explained

HR: You know Java? Me: No, I don’t know Java

HR: What other subjects you know? Me: I know compute networks

HR: Ok explain tcp/ip protocol Me: Explained

HR: What are the different types of ip addresses? Me: Told and explained

HR: What other protocols you know? Me: I couldnot remember any other protocols.

HR: Tell about peer to peer network and shared network? Difference between them? Me: Told

HR: Which other subjects you know? Me: Mobile communication

HR: Except mobile communication which subjects you know? Me: I was silent I could not remember any subjects that I am confident in.

Then technical asked the HR manager(female) to ask questions. HR: What are your weakness? Me: Told

HR: TCS is present at many centres including remote areas. Do you want to be relocated? Me: I am ready to work anywhere for TCS

HR: How you believe that you have team leading capability? Me: Told

HR: Why TCS? Me: My brother is working for a TATA Group company for last 6 years.

HR: Both HRs asked at same time why? Me: He has told me that job satisfaction is there is TATA Group of comanies and for me it is the no1 it service provider and our sourcer in India and outside world also. They were happy at this time

HR: Why should we select you? Me: Told about my strong areas and team building capability. And told them for the above reasons I feel I am the best candidate for TCS.

HR: Ok thank you so much. Me: Handshaked and told thank you so much mam.

Mean time other HR asked me “You have to take a Pakoda at least". Actually there was pokoda in the table in front of me and HR shared with me. Me: First handshake with male HR and picked one pokoda from plate and again thanked them.

HR: One more thing. Please nut the tie properly while next time) (Actually my tie was loose. I could not get any time to size my tie) Me: I smiled and thanked again to both of them and left the place

We waited around 2 hours after interview at around 8 pm they told all the 26 candidates to go to conference hall. We gathered. They gave the presentations about TCS IT infrastructures. Actually the drive was specially meant for IT infrastructure servies.

At last they told that they will send the information about confirmation about our selection through mail. We all left the place.

Next day on 2nd Oct at 6 pm I got an email that I have successfully qualified in the selection process and will receive offer letter shortly. My joys had no bounds when I got the mail. It was the happiest moment for me for ever.

Written test:

It was very easy exam as compared with other company written exams. Test contains 35

questions, only from quantitative, in 60 minutes. You can get through if you prepared with

previous papers. Questions which i got in exam are.

1) Two pipes A and B fill at A certain rate B is filled at 10,20,40,80,. If 1/16 of B if filled in 17 hours what time it will take to get completely filled Ans 21 2) In a shopping mall with a staff of 5 members the average age is 45 years. After 5 years a person joined them and the average age is again 45 years. What’s the age of 6th person? 3) Find (4x+2y)/ (4x-2y) if x/2y=2 4) Find average speed if a man travels at speed of 24kmph up and 36kmph down at an altitude of 200m. Formula is 2xy/(x+y) 5) Same model as 4th question. But it is on flat surface. Formula is same 2xy/(x+y). 6) Six friends go to pizza corner there are 2 types of pizzas. And six different flavors are there they have to select 2 flavors from 6 flavors. In how many ways we can select? Ans: 6C2 7) 3, 15, x, 51, 53,159,161. Find X

Ans: 17 8) 3 friends A, B, C went for week end party to McDonald’s restaurant and there they measure there weights in some order IN 7 rounds. A;B;C;AB;BC;AC;ABC. Final round measure is 155 kg then find the average weight of all the 7 rounds? Ans: 4(155)/7=31 9) There is a toy train that can make 10 musical sounds. It makes 2 musical sounds after being defective. What is the probability that same musical sound would be produced 5 times consecutively? (1 of )? Ans: 1/2 * 1/2 * 1/2 * 1/2 * 1/2 = 1/32 10) (There was a long story, I'll cut short it). There are 5 materials to make a perfume: Lilac, Balsamic, Lemon, and Woody and MI mosaic. To make a perfume that is in demand the following conditions are to be followed: Lilac and Balsamic go together. Woody and MI mosaic go together; Woody and Balsamic never go together. Lemon can be added with any material. (Actually they had also mentioned how much amount of one can be added with how much quantity of the other; but that's not needed for the question.) All of the following combinations are possible to make a perfume except: 1) Balsamic and Lilac 2) Woody and Lemon 3) MI mosaic and Woody 4) MI mosaic and Lilac 11) A triangle is made from a rope. The sides of the triangle are A cm, B cm and C cm (I do not remember the numerical value). What will be the area of the square made from the same rope? Ans: ((A+B+C)/4)2 12) What is the distance of the z-intercept from the x-intercept in the equation ax+by+cz=d (I do not remember the values of a, b, c, d). Ans: sqrt ((d/a) 2+ (d/c) 2) 13) A scientist in Antarctic region conducts research on bears came to know that bears changes according to the location .once he moves 1 mile towards north, then he moves 2 miles towards east, then 1 mile towards south. Now the color of bear he found will be in: Ans: white 14) (1/3) of a number is 3 times more than the (1/6) of the same number? Ans is 18 15) There are 11 boys in a family. Youngest child is a boy. What is the probability of all are boys? a) 2 b) 2! C) 2048 d) 1024 16) A boy bought a roll A of 56 inches wide and 141 yards long. He also bought B of 77 inches wide of length 333yards. We don’t want any details of B. Some irrelevant matter.

Final question is Time taken for cutting A into 1 yard piece is 2 seconds. Time taken to cut into 141 pieces of 1 yard each is? Ans is 2(141) =242 17) A Person buys a horse for 15 ponds, after one year he sells it for 20 pounds. After one year, again he buys the same horse at 30 pounds and sells it for 40 pounds. What is the profit for that person? Ans is 15 pounds 18) John buys a cycle for 31 dollars and given a cheque of amount 35 dollars. Shop Keeper exchanged the cheque with his neighbor and gave change to John. After 2 days, it is known that cheque is bounced. Shop keeper paid the amount to his neighbor. The cost price of cycle is 19 dollars. What is the profit/loss for shop keeper? Ans is 23(cost price + change given). 19) In a family there are some boys and girls. All boys told that they are having equal no of brothers and sisters and girls told that they are having twice the no. of brothers than sisters. How many boys and girls present in a family? Ans is 4 boys and 3 girls 20) There are certain number of hats and gloves in a box. They are of 41 red, 23 green, 11 orange. Power gone. But a woman can differentiate between hats and gloves.How many draws are required to obtain a pair of each color. 21) There is a die with 10 faces. It is not known that fair or not. 2 captains want to toss die for batting selection. What is the possible solution among the following? a) If no. is odd it is head, if no. is even it is tail b) If no. is odd it is tail, if no. is even it is head c) Toss a die until all the 10 digits appear on top face. And if first no. in the sequence is odd then consider it as tail. If it is even consider it as head. I didn’t remembered last option and I don’t know answer. 22) 2 years ago of A is x times that of B. 3 Years hence the age of A is 4/3 times of B. What is the present age of B in binary form? I didn’t remember the exact values of x and y. You can solve easily. 23) metal strip of width ‘x’ cm. 2 metal strips are placed one over the other, then the combine length of 2 strips is ‘y’. If ‘z’ strips are placed in that manner. What is the final width of that arrangement? Ans is (z-1) (y-x) +x. 24) There are 100 men and 100 women on the dance floor. They want to dance with each other. Then which of the following statements is always true: a) There are 2 men who danced with equal no. of women’s b) There are 2 women who danced with equal no. of men

25) A game is played between 2 players and one player is declared as winner. All the winners from first round are played in second round. All the winners from second round are played in third round and so on. If 8 rounds are played to declare only one player as winner, how many players are played in first round Ans is 28. 26) There are 3 boys A, B, C and 2 Girls D, E. D always sit right to A. Girls never sit in extreme positions and in the middle position. C always sits in the extreme positions. Who is sitting immediate right to E? Ans is B or C 27) 49 members attended the party. In that 22 are males, 17 are females. The shake hands between males, females, male and female. Total 12 people given shake hands. How many such kinds of such shake hands are possible? Ans is 12C2 28) There are 1000 pillars for a temple. 3 friends Linda, Chelsey, Juli visited that temple. (Some unrelated stuff) Linda is taller than Chelsea and taller than 2 of 1000 pillars. Julia is shorter than Linda. Find the correct sentence? a) Linda is shorter among them b) Chelsea is taller than Julia c) Chelsea is shorter than Julia d) Cannot determine who is taller among Chelsea and Julia Ans: d 29) Entry ticket to an exhibition ranges from 1p to 31p. You need to provide exact change at the counter. You have 31p coin. In how many parts will u divide 31p so that u will provide the exact change required and carry as less coins as possible? a) 22 b) 31 c) 6 d) 32 Ans is 6 30) There are 2 friends Peter and Paul. Peter age is twice as old as Paul when peter was as old as Paul is now. Sum of the present ages of Peter and Paul is 35.What is the present age of Peter? Ans is 20 31) A lady took out jacket and gloves, which are avialable in blue 26, yellow 30 and red 56. Power goes off, she can distinguish between gloves and jacket but not in colors. What's the possibilty their she will pick up pair of gloves of each color. 32) Two bowls are taken, one contains water and another contains tea.one spoon of water is added to second bowl and mixed well, and a spoon of mixture is taken from second bowl and added to the second bowl. Which statement will hold good for the above? (Ans: second liquid in first bowl is smaller than the first mixture in second bowl)

33) Rearrange and categorize the word ‘RAPETEKA’? Ans: bird(parakeet)

34) A lies on mon, tues, wed and speak truths on other days, B lies on Thurs, Fri, Sat and speaks truths on other days. One day a said I lied today and B said I too lied today. What is the day?

35) One grandfather has three grandchildren, two of their age difference is 3, eldest child age is 3 times youngest child’s age and eldest child’s age is two times of sum of other two children. What is the age of eldest child? Ans: 18 I attempted 27 questions. Result was declared in the evening and my name was among the successful guys. I was so happy. Then they asked us 2 come on 28th Sept at 11:30 AM as it was getting late that day.

Technical:

I reached there by 11:00 on 28th. After checking our documents, we were made 2 sit in a room and asked 2 wait 4 the turn. My turn came around 7 pm and within half an hour, result was declared and again my name was in the list.

Questions asked from me and my friends are:

1)Tell me abt. urself. 2) Your project in detail nd ur role in it. 3) Yourr favourite subjects in B.Tech. Be well prepare with atleast 1. 4) OSI model nd function of each layer 5) TCP/IP model 6) Classful addressing 7) What is swapping? 8) Difference b/w linux and windows? 9) What is op-amp? 10) What is IC? 11) Which sorting technique is best? 12) What is stack? 13) WAP for factorial using recursion. 14) WAP for Armstrong no. 15) Wap for reversing a string. 16) WAP for prime no. 17) WAP for even/odd no. 18) WAP for getting Fibonacci series. 19) What is REGEDIT command? 20) What is your PC’s configuration? 21) How to do project planning? 22) Being an ECE student, why you want 2 join software industry? 23) What is the use of stdio.h, conio.h? 24) Different b/w scanf & gets? 25) Different b/w while nd do while? 26) Why capacitor allows ac nd not dc?

HR: After half an hour, I was called for HR Me: Good evening sir. Int: Good evening, take your seat. Me: Thank you sir. (Interviewer is looking at my resume, which i already gave to them) Int: Tell me about yourself. Me: Told with confidence and smile on my face. (I think he was well satisfied with my answer). Int: Tell me about. Your family background. Me: Bla Bla Int: Tell me about your hobbies? Me: Told as cricket and internet surfing. Then he asked some questions about cricket. So be well prepare with your hobbies Int: Why do you want to join TCS? Me: Told some strong points about TCS and he was impressed with my answer. Int: I you are rejected today, then what will you do? Me: Told Int: Are you having any geographical constraints (are you intended to work anywhere in the world)? Me: No sir, I am not having any geographical constraints and I’m interested to work anywhere in the world. Int: Are you ok with TCS bond (2 years, bond break 50,000)? Me: Yes sir. Int: Thank you. (It was a 10 min round. I felt very happy for that. They told me that they will send results through mail within 3 week. I thought i will be selected because i was confident about my performance)

1) Now pet's age is to times when paul was once. But at that time paul's age=pet's current age ,how old is pet? 2) Block has 10,9,5 size, how many unit cube is needed to make a block of that size? 3) 23 people are there, they are shaking hands together, how many hand shakes possible, if they are in pair of cyclic sequence. Ans-22 4) 10men and 10 women are there, they dance with each other, is there possibilty that 2 men are dancing with same women and vice versa. Ans-never 5) A lady took out jacket and gloves, which are avialable in blue 26, yellow 30 and red 56. Power goes off, she can distinguish between gloves and jacket but not in colors. What's the possibilty their she will pick up pair of gloves of each color 6) B is taller than j and 3 pillers. P is shorter than B and 2 pillers is j shorter/taller than P? Ans-irrelevant question 7) Sangakara and ponting selects batting by using a dice, but dice is biased so to resolve ponty takes out a coin, what is the probability that dice shows correct option. 8) In school there are some bicycles and 4wheeler wagons. One Tuesday there are 58 wheels in the campus. How many bicycles are there? Ans: 7 9. Two bowls are taken, one contains water and another contains tea.one spoon of water is added to second bowl and mixed well, and a spoon of mixture is taken from second bowl and added to the second bowl. Which statement will hold good for the above? (Ans: second liquid in first bowl is smaller than the first mixture in second bowl) 10. Which is the smallest no divides 2880 and gives a perfect square? a. 1 b.2 c.5 d.6 Ans: c 11. Form 8 digit numbers from by using 1, 2,3,4,5 with repetition is allowed and must be divisible by4? a. 31250 b.97656 c.78125 d.97657 Ans: c 12. One problem on (a3-b3)/(a2+ab+b2) Ans: ‘a-b’ 13. Rearrange and categorize the word ‘RAPETEKA’? Ans: bird(parakeet)

14. Key words in question (Fibonacci series, infinite series, in the middle of the question one number series is there. I got the series 3 12 7 26 15 b? Ans:54 (Logic: 3*2+1=7 12*2+2=26 7*2+1=15 26*2+2=54) 15. A father has 7 penny’s with him and 1 water melon is for 1p, 2chickoos for 1p, 3 grapes foe 1p. He has three sons. How can he share the fruits equally? Ans: 1 watermelon, 2chickoos, 1grape 16. A lies on mon, tues, wed and speak truths on other days, B lies on thur, fri, sat and speaks truths on other days.. one day a said I lied today and B said I too lied today. What is the day? 17. Man, Bear, North, South, Walks. Ans: White 18. (1/2) of a number is 3 times more than the (1/6) of the same number? Ans: 9(for any no it can be true) 19. There are two pipes A and B. If A filled 10 liters in hour B can fills 20 liters in same time. Likewise B can fill 10, 20, 40, 80,160. If B filled in (1/16) th of a tank in 3 hours, how much time will it take to fill completely? Ans: 7 hours 20. Keywords: T.Nagar, Chennai, 1-100, prime numbers b/n 140-180, How many 2’s are there? Ans: 20 (Not only 2’s ,1’s,3’s,4’s,5’s,6’s,7’s,8’s,9’s,0’s also 20) 21. One question has last part like difference between two terms is 9 and product of two numbers is 14, what is the squares of sum of numbers? Ans: 109 22. A man is standing before a painting of a man and he says I have no bro and sis and his father is my father’s son? Ans: His son 23. What is the value of [(3x+8Y)/(x-2Y)]; if x/2y=2? Ans: 10 {the numerical may change) 24. A pizza shop made pizzas with to flavours.in home there are ‘N’ different flavors, in that ‘M’ flavors are taken to made pizza.in how many ways they can arrange? (Logic: NcM ) 25. One grandfather has three grandchildren, two of their age difference is 3, eldest child age is 3 times youngest child’s age and eldest child’s age is two times of sum of other two children. What is the age of eldest child?

Ans: 18 26. In a market 4 man are standing. The average age of the four before 4 years is 45, aftyer some days one man is added and his age is 49. What is the average weight of all? Ans: 49 27. Keywords: One organization, material, labor and maintenance are in the ratio of 4:6:7, the material cost is: 100, what is the total cost? Ans: 425 28. Keywords: Density, Reluctance, Sensitivity, Voltage, Current, what is the Resistance Formula is “R=V/I” 29. Keywords: Sports readers, 10 tables, 4chairs per table, each table has different number of people then how many tables will left without at least one person? Ans : 6 30. Keywords: Die, card, coin, b/n 2 to 12 Ans: All are equal 31. In a school for a student out of a 100 he got 74 of average for 7 subjects and he got 79 marks in 8th subject. what is the average of all the subjects? The extra 5 marks will be distributed in 8 semester, 5/8=.625 74+.625=74.625 32. In a question ,last part has ,the ages of two people has the ratio of 6:5 and by adding the numbers we get 44,after how many years the ratio would be 8:7? Ans: 8 33. Two years before Paul’s age is 2times the Alice age and the present age of Paul is 6times the Alice. What is the presents Paul’s age?( 3years) “You try to solve this question once” 34. One train travels 200m from A to B with 70 km/ph. and returns to A with 80kmph, what is the average of their speed? Just go and hit't

1) Ferrari S.P.A is an Italian sports car manufacturer based in Maranello, Italy. Founded by Enzo Ferrari in 1928 as Scuderia Ferrari, the company sponsored drivers and manufactured race cars before moving into production of street-legal vehicles in 1947 as Feraari S.P.A. Throughout its history, the company has been noted for its continued participation in racing, especially in Formula One where it has employed great success. Rohit once bought a Ferrari. It could go 4 times as fast as Mohan's old Mercedes. If the speed of Mohan's Mercedes is 46 km/hr and the distance traveled by the Ferrari is 953 km, find the total time taken for Rohit to drive that distance. a) 20.72 b) 5.18 c) 238.25 d) 6.18 Ans: b 2) A sheet of paper has statements numbered from 1 to 70. For all values of n from 1 to 70. Statement n says 'At least n of the statements on this sheet are false.' Which statements are true and which are false? a) The even numbered statements are true and the odd numbered are false. b) The odd numbered statements are true and the even numbered are false. c) The first 35 statements are true and the last 35 are false. d) The first 35 statements are false and the last 35 are false. Ans: c 3 questions of same type stating at most, exactly 3) There are two water tanks A and B, A is much smaller than B. While water fills at the rate of one litre every hour in A, it gets filled up like 10, 20, 40, 80, 160 in tank B. (At the end of first hour, B has 10 litres, second hour it has 20, and so on). If tank B is 1/32 filled after 21 hours, what is the total duration required to fill it completely? a) 26 hrs b) 25 hrs c) 5 hrs d) 27 hrs Ans: a 4) 10 suspects are rounded by the police and questioned about a bank robbery. Only one of them is guilty. The suspects are made to stand in a line and each person declares that the person next to him on his right is guilty. The rightmost person is not questioned. Which of the following possibilities are true? A. All suspects are lying B. leftmost suspect is innocent C. leftmost suspect is guilty a) A only b) A or C c) A or B d) B only Ans: c 5) Alok and Bhanu play the following min-max game. Given the expression N = 15 + X*(Y – Z)

Where X, Y and Z are variables representing single digits (0 to 9), Alok would like to maximize N while Bhanu would like to minimize it. Towards this end, Alok chooses a single digit number and Bhanu substitutes this for a variable of her choice (X, Y or Z). Alok then chooses the next value and Bhanu, the variable to substitute the value. Finally Alok proposes the value for the remaining variable. Assuming both play to their optimal strategies, the value of N at the end of the game would be Ans: 15+18 =33 3 questions of the same type with different equations for N 6) A hollow cube of size 5 cm is taken, with a thickness of 1 cm. It is made of smaller cubes of size 1 cm. If 1face of the outer surface of the cube are painted, totally how many faces of the smaller cubes remain unpainted? a) 900 b) 488 c) 563 d) 800 Ans: c 7) In planet OZ planet there are 8 days, sunday to saturday and 8th day is Oz day. There is 36 hours in a day. What is angle between 12.40? 8) Horse started to chase dog as it relieved stable two hrs ago. And horse started to ran with average speed 22km/hr, horse crossed 10 mts road and two small pounds with depth 3m, and it crossed two small street with 200 mts length. After traveling 6 hrs, 2hrs after sunset it got dog. compute the speed of dog? Ans: As we have speed and travel time of horse, we can get distance travelled by it. Hence d = 22*6 = 132km, Exactly this 132km was travelled by dog in 8 hours (as it started two hours earlier). Hence speed of dog = 132/8 = 16.5km/hr Ans: 16.5km/hr. Values are also changed in some types 9) The IT giant Tirnop has recently crossed a head count of 150000 and earnings of $7 billion. As one of the forerunners in the technology front, Tirnop continues to lead the way in products and services in India. At Tirnop, all programmers are equal in every respect. They receive identical salaries ans also write code at the same rate. Suppose 12 such programmers take 12 minutes to write 12 lines of code in total. How long will it take 72 programmers to write 72 lines of code in total? a) 6 b) 18 c) 72 d) 12 10) Middle – earth is a fictional land inhabited by Hobbits, Elves, dwarves and men. The Hobbits and the Elves are peaceful creatures who prefer slow, silent lives and appreciate nature and art. The dwarves and the men engage in physical games. The game is as follows . A tournol is one where out of the two teams that play a match, the one that loses get eliminated. The matches are played in different rounds where in every round, half of the teams get eliminated from the tournament. If there are 8 rounds played in a knock-out tournol how many matches were played?

a) 257 b) 256 c) 72 d) 255 11) After the typist writes 12 letters and addresses 12 envelopes, she inserts the letters randomly into the envelopes (1 letter per envelope). What is the probability that exactly 1 letter is inserted in an improper envelope? a) 0 b) 12/212 c) 11/12 d) 1/12 Ans: a 12) The citizens of planet nigiet are 6 fingered and have thus developed their decimal system in base 6. A certain street in nigiet contains 1000 (in base 8) buildings numbered 1 to 1000. How many 3s are used in numbering these buildings? a) 256 b) 54 c) 192 d) 108 Ans: d 13) A and B play a game between them. The dice consist of colors on their faces(instead of number). When the dice are thrown, A wins if both show the same color, otherwise B wins. One die has 3 red faces and 3 blue faces. How many red and blue faces should the other die have if the both players have if the both players have the same chances of winning? a) 5 red and 1 blue faces. b) 1 red and 5 blue faces. c) 3 red and 3 blue faces. Ans: c 14) For the FIFA world cup, Paul the octopus has been predicting the winner of each match with amazing success. It is rumored that in a match between 2 teams A and B, Paul picks A with the same probability as A's chances of winning. Let's assume such rumors to be true and that in a match between Ghana and Bolivia, Ghana the stronger team has a probability of 2/3 of winning the game. What is the probability that Paul will correctly pick the winner of the Ghana-Bolivia game? a) 5/9 b) 1/9 c) 2/3 d) 1/3 (For this question they changed the values) 15) A manufacturer undertakes to supply 2000 pieces of a particular component at Rs.25 per piece. According to his estimates, even if 5% fail to pass the quality tests, then he will make a profit of 25%. However, as it turned out, 50% of the components were rejected. What is the loss to the manufacturer? (a) Rs.12000 (b) Rs.13000 (c) Rs.14000 (d) Rs.15000 16) Given 3 lines in the plane such that the points of intersection form a triangle with sides of length 20, 20 and 30, the number of points equidistant from all the 3 lines is a) 1 b) 0 c) 4 d) 2 17) Given a collection of points P in the plane, a 1-set is a point in P that can be separated from the rest by a line, .i.e the point lies on one side of the line while the others lie on the other side. The number of 1-sets of P is denoted by n1(P). The minimum value of n1(P) over

all configurations P of 7 points in the plane in general position(.i.e no three points in P lie on a line) is a) 3 b) 7 c) 2 d) 1 Ans: 7 18) 10 people meet and shake hands. The maximum number of handshakes possible if there is to be no “cycle” of handshakes is (A cycle of handshakes is a sequence of k people a1, a2, ……, ak (k > 2) such that the pairs {a1, a2}, {a2, a3}, ……, {ak-1, ak}, {ak, a1} shake hands). a) 7 b) 6 c) 9 d) 8 Ans: c 3 questions from handshake process questions both LINEAR AND ALSO CYCLIC HR and Technical: Me: Good afternoon sir. HR: Good afternoon! take your seat. Me: Thank you. HR: Your native? Me: Said HR: Your family background? Me: Said HR: Tell me about yourself? Me: Said HR: You have some IBM certifications on Db2 and RAD can you explain me? Me: Told about db2 and rad. In rad i completed with a word eclipse. HR: What is eclipse? Me: Told. HR: Your area of interest? Me: Said DBMS, web designing and seo HR: What is seo? Me: Said. HR: What is normalization? HR: What is foreign key? HR: Types of normalization? HR: Type which is associated with foreign key? Me: Said HR: Can we do the referencing without foreign key?

Me: I said but we had a big discussion over it. HR: Any questions? Me: asked.

1. The IT giant Tirnop has recently crossed a head count of 150000 and earnings of $7

billion. As one of the forerunners in the technology front, Tirnop continues to lead the way

in products and services in India. At Tirnop, all programmers are equal in every respect.

They receive identical salaries and also write code at the same rate.Suppose 12 such

programmers take 12 minutes to write 12 lines of code in total. How long will it take 72

programmers to write 72 lines of code in total?

( I got this ques 3 times with values changed)

2. Alok and Bhanu play the following min-max game. Given the expression N = 24 + X + Y – Z ,where X, Y and Z are variables representing single digits (0 to 9), Alok would like to maximize N while Bhanu would like to minimize it. Towards this end, Alok chooses a single digit number and Bhanu substitutes this for a variable of her choice (X, Y or Z). Alok then chooses the next value and Bhanu, the variable to substitute the value. Finally Alok proposes the value for the remaining variable. Assuming both play to their optimal strategies, the value of N at the end of the game would be(i got this ques 2 times with equations changed) Ans: 35

3. A sheet of paper has statements numbered from 1 to 40. For each value of n from 1 to 40, statement n says "At least n of the statements on this sheet are true." Which statements are true and which are false? a) All statements are false b) The odd numbered statements are true the even numbered are false c) All statements are true d) The even numbered statements are true and the odd numbered are false (like this i got another ques with stmts numbered from 1 to 10)

4. The citizens of planet nigiet are 8 fingered and have thus developed their decimal system in base 8. A certain street in nigiet contains 100 (in base 8) buildings numbered 1 to 100. How many 3s are used in numbering these buildings and give the answer in base 10 system? (my friends got same ques with give the ans in base 7, base 6, base 5etc)

5. A result of global warming is that the ice of some glaciers is melting. Twelve years after the ice disappears tiny plants, called lichens, start to grow on the rocks. Each lichens grows approximately in the shape of a circle. The relationship between the diameter of this circle and the age of the lichen can be approximated with the formula

d = 13 * (t-11) for t > 11 where d represents the diameter of the lichen in millimeters, and t represents the number of years after the ice disappeared. Using the above formula,

calculate the diameter of the lichen, 36 years after the ice has disappeared. a) 468 mm b) 457 mm c) 325 mm d) 11 mm

6. A circular dartboard of radius 1 foot is at a distance of 20 feet from you. You throw a dart at it and it hits the dartboard at some point Q in the circle. What is the probability that Q is closer to the center of the circle than the periphery? a) 1/4 b) 1/2 c)3/4 d) 1/3

7. After the typist writes 25 letters and addresses 25 envelopes, she inserts the letters randomly into the envelopes (1 letter per envelope). What is the probability that exactly 1 letter is inserted in an improper envelope? a) 11/12 b) 0 c) 1/12 d) 1/6

8. Alok is attending a workshop "How to do more with less" and today's theme is Working with fewer digits . The speakers discuss how a lot of miraculous mathematics can be achieved if mankind (as well as womankind) had only worked with fewer digits. The problem posed at the end of the workshop is How many 5 digit numbers can be formed using the digits 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 (but with repetition) that are divisible by 4? Can you help Alok find the answer? a) 375 b) 625 c) 500 d) 3125

7. Given 3 lines in the plane such that the points of intersection form a triangle with sides of length 20, 20 and 30, the number of points equidistant from all the 3 lines is a) 1 b) 0 c) 4 d) 2

(For this question they changed the value of third side but the ans for this type of question is always one)

8. The pacelength P is the distance between the rear of two consecutive footprints. For men, the formula, n/P = 144 gives an approximate relationship between n and P where, n = number of steps per minute and P = pacelength in meters. Bernard knows his pacelength is 111cm. The formula applies to Bernard’s walking. Calculate Bernard’s walking speed kmph.

9. Alice and Bob play the following coins-on-a-stack game. 50 coins are stacked one above the other. One of them is a special (gold) coin and the rest are ordinary coins. The goal is to bring the gold coin to the top by repeatedly moving the topmost coin to another position in the stack.Alice starts and the players take turns. A turn consists of moving the coin on the top to a position i below the top coin (0 ≤ i ≤ 20). We will call this an i-move (thus a 0-move implies doing nothing). The proviso is that an i-move cannot be repeated; for example once a player makes a 2-move, on subsequent turns neither player can make a 2-move. If the gold coin happens to be on top when it's a player's turn then the player wins the game. Initially, the gold coinis the third coin from the top. Then a) In order to win, Alice’s first move should be a 0-move. b) In order to win, Alice’s first move should be a 1-move. c) Alice has no winning strategy. d) In order to win, Alice’s first move can be a 0-move or a 1-move

10. For the FIFA world cup, Paul the octopus has been predicting the winner of each match with amazing success. It is rumored that in a match between 2 teams A and B, Paul picks A with the same probability as A's chances of winning. Let's assume such rumors to be true and that in a match between Ghana and Bolivia, Ghana the stronger team has a probability of 2/3 of winning the game. What is the probability that Paul will correctly pick the winner of the Ghana-Bolivia game? a) 5/9 b) 1/9 c) 2/3 d) 1/3 (For this question they changed the values)

11. 33 people {a1, a2, ..., a36} meet and shake hands in a circular fashion. In other words, there are totally 33 handshakes involving the pairs, {a1, a2}, {a2, a3}, ..., {a35, a36}, {a36, a1}. Then size of the smallest set of people such that the rest have shaken hands with at least one person in the set is? (ans is 11)

12. One the Planet, Oz, there are 8 days in a week – Sunday to Saturday and another day called Oz day. There are 36 hours in a day and each hours has 90 min while each minute has 60 sec. As on earth, hour hand covers the dial twice every day. Find the approximate angle between the hands of clock on Oz when time is 15.40 am?

13. Planet fourfi resides in 4 – dimensional space and thus the currency used by its residents are 3 – dimensional objects. The rupees notes are cubical in shape while their coins are spherical. However the coin minting machinery lays out some stipulations on the size of the coins.

The diameter of the coins should be at least 16mm and not exceed 64mm

Given a coin, the diameter of the next larger coin is at least 50% greater.

The diameter of the coin must always be an integer. You are asked to design a set of coins of different diameters with these requirements and your goal is to design as many coins as possible. How many coins can you design?

14. A hare and tortoise a race along a circle of 100 yards diameter. The tortoise goes in one direction and the hare in the other. The hare starts after tortoise has covered 1/5 its distance and that leisurely. The hare and tortoise meet when the hare has covered only 1/8 of the distance. By what factor should the hare increase its speed so as to tie the race? a) 8 b) 37.80 c) 40 d) 5 (For this question they changed the value 1/5 to 1/3 and 1/8 to 1/7)

15. Anoop managed to draw 7 circles of equal radii with their centres on the diagonal of a square such that the two extreme circles touch two sides of the square and each middle circle touches two circles on either side. Find the ratio of the radius of the circles to the side of the square.

2)a) 1:(2 + 7

3)b) 1:(4 + 7

2):1c) (2 + 7

2) ( For me they changed 7 circles to 9 circles)d) 1:(2 + 6

16. Ferrari S.p.A. is an Italian sports car manufacturer based in Maranello, Italy. Founded by Enzo Ferrari in 1928 as Scuderia Ferrari, the company sponsored drivers and manufactured race cars before moving into production of street-legal vehicles in1947 as Ferrari S.p.A. Throughout its history the company has been noted for its continued participation in racing especially in Formula One where it has enjoyed great success. Rohit once bought a Ferrari. It could go 2 times as fast as Mohit’s old Mercedes. If the speed of Mohit’s Mercedes is 32 km/hr and the distance travelled by the Ferrari is 952 km, find the total time taken in hours for Rohit to drive that distance.

17.There are two boxes, one containing 10 red balls and the other containing 10 green balls. You are allowed to move the balls between the boxes so that when you choose a box at random and a ball at random from the chosen box, the probability of getting a red is maximized. This maximum probability is a) 37/38 b) 1 / 2 c) 14/19 d) 3 / 4 (values are changed for me. I think it is 23 red and 30 green)

18. 10 suspects are rounded by the police and questioned about a bank robbery. Only one of them is guilty. The suspects are made to stand in a line and each person declares that the person next to him on his right is guilty. The rightmost person is not questioned. Which of the following possibilities are true? A) All suspects are lying B) the leftmost suspect is guilty C) rightmost suspect is guilty a)A only b)A and B c)B only d)A and C

19. 1/3rd of the number is 3 more than 1/6th of the number, then find the number? a) 24 b) 12 c) 18 d) 20

20. 21 people meet and shake hands. The maximum number of handshakes possible if there is to be no ‘cycle’ of handshakes is (A cycle of handshakes is a sequence of people a1, a2, … , aK such that the pairs (a1, a2), (a2, a3),… , (a (k-1), a k) , (ak, a1) shake hands. a) 17 b) 18 c) 19 d) 20

21. There are two water tanks A and B, A is much smaller than B. While water fills at the rate of one litre every hour in A, it gets filled up like 10, 20, 40, 80, 160….., in tank B. (At the end of first hour, B has 10 liters, second hour it has 20, and so on) If tank B is 1/16 filled after 17 hours, what is the total durations required to fill it completely? a) 4 hours b) 21 hours c) 22 hours d) 24 hours

22. Middle-earth is a fictional land inhabited by hobbits, Elves, dwarves and men. The Hobbits and the Elves are peaceful creatures who prefer slow, silent lives and appreciate nature and art. The dwarves and the men engage in physical games. The game is as follows. A tournoi is one, where out of two teams that play a match, the one that loses get eliminated. The matches are played in different rounds where in every round; half of the teams get eliminated from the tournament. If there are 6 rounds played in a knock-out tournoi how many matches were played?

If it is mathches then formula is 2^n-1 If it is players then it is 2^n

23. Given a collection of points P in the plane , a 1-set is a point in P that can be separated from the rest by a line, .i.e the point lies on one side of the line while the others lie on the other side. The number of 1-sets of P is denoted by n1(P). The minimum value of n1(P) over all configurations P of 9 points in the plane in general position (.i.e no three points in P lie on a line) is a) 7 b) 9 c) 8 d) 10

24. A lady has fine gloves and hats of different colours of hats in her closet-18 blue,32 red and 25 yellow.the lights are out and it is totally dark.In spite of thr ddarkness,she can make out of the difference which is hat and a glove.she takes an item out of the closet only if he sure that it is glove .how many gloves must she take out make sure that she has a pair of each color. a)6 b)8 c)60 d)59 (For me they changed the values of blue,red and yellow colours)

25. (There was a long story, I'll cut short it). There are 5 materials to make a perfume: Lilac, Balsalmic, Lemon, Woody and Mimosaic. To make a perfume that is in demand the following conditions are to be followed: Lilac and Balsalmic go together. Woody and Mimosaic go together, Woody and Balsalmic never go together. Lemon can be added with any material. (Actually they had also mentioned how much amount of one can be added with how much quantity of the other; but that's not needed for the question.) All of the following combinations are possible to make a perfume except:

(Like this model. But they changed the story by adding lemon, sweet etc and we have to find the option that gives ans for the impossible combination that is given in questions. Its a easy and logical type question)

26. One question like that there are 40 barreals are there and one is poisoned. If a drop is consumed he will die in 14 hrs then how many least mice are required to find the poisoned barreal?

1) Given a collection of points P in the plane , a 1-set is a point in P that can be separated from the rest by a line, .i.e the point lies on one side of the line while the others lie on the other side. The number of 1-sets of P is denoted by n1(P). The minimum value of n1(P) over all configurations P of 5 points in the plane in general position (.i.e no three points in P lie on

a line) is a) 3 b) 5 c) 2

2) How many four digit numbers can be formed using the digits 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 (but with repetition) that are divisible by 4? Can you help Alok find the answer? a) 100 b) 125 c) 75 d) 85 3) On planet korba, a solar blast has melted the ice caps on its equator. 9 years after the ice melts, tiny planetoids called echina start growing on the rocks. Echina grows in the form of circle, and the relationship between the diameter of this circle and the age of echina is given by the formula d = 4* (t-9) for t ≥ 9 Where d represents the diameter in mm and t the number of years since the solar blast. Jagan recorded the radius of some echina at a particular spot as 12mm. How many years back did the solar blast occur? a) 17 b) 21.25 c) 12 d) 12.06 Ans: c 4) Ferrari S.P.A is an Italian sports car manufacturer based in Maranello, Italy. Founded by Enzo Ferrari in 1928 as Scuderia Ferrari , the company sponsored drivers and manufactured race cars before moving into production of street-legal vehicles in 1947 as Feraari S.P.A. Throughout its history, the company has been noted for its continued participation in racing, especially in Formula One where it has employed great success .Rohit once bought a Ferrari . It could go 4 times as fast as Mohan's old Mercedes. If the speed of Mohan's Mercedes is 46 km/hr and the distance traveled by the Ferrari is 953 km, find the total time taken for Rohit to drive that distance. a) 20.72 b) 5.18 c) 238.25 d) 6.18 Ans: b

5) A sheet of paper has statements numbered from 1 to 70. For all values of n from 1 to 70. Statement n says 'At least n of the statements on this sheet are false.' Which statements are true and which are false?

a) The even numbered statements are true and the odd numbered are false. b) The odd numbered statements are true and the even numbered are false. c) The first 35 statements are true and the last 35 are false. d) The first 35 statements are false and the last 35 are false.

Ans: c

6) There are two water tanks A and B, A is much smaller than B. While water fills at the rate of one litre every hour in A, it gets filled up like 10, 20, 40, 80, 160 in tank B. (At the end of first hour, B has 10 litres, second hour it has 20, and so on). If tank B is 1/32 filled after 21 hours, what is the total duration required to fill it completely?

a) 26 hrs b) 25 hrs c) 5 hrs d) 27 hrs Ans: a 7) There are two water tanks A and B, A is much smaller than B. While water fills at the rate of one litre every hour in A, it gets filled up like 10, 20, 40, 80, 160... in tank B. (At the end of first hour, B has 10 litres , second hour it has 20, and so on). If tank B is 1/16 filled after 4 hours, what is the total duration required to fill it completely?

a) 8hrs b) 25 hrs c) 5 hrs d) 27 hrs Ans: a

8) Unnecessary data. A lady has fine gloves and hats in her closet- 18 blue- 32 red , 10 white , 25 yellow, 55 purple, 30 orange. The lights are out and it is totally dark inspite of the darkness. She can make out the difference between a hat and a glove. She takes out an item out of the closet only if she is sure that if it is a glove. How many gloves must she take out to make sure she has a pair of each colour of blue, red, yellow? a) 59 b) 8 c) 50 d) 42 Ans: a(32+25+2)

9) The IT giant Tirnop has recently crossed a head count of 150000 and earnings of $7 billion. As one of the forerunners in the technology front, Tirnop continues to lead the way in products and services in India. At Tirnop, all programmers are equal in every respect. They receive identical salaries ans also write code at the same rate.Suppose 12 such programmers take 12 minutes to write 12 lines of code in total. How long will it take 72 programmers to write 72 lines of code in total? a) 6 b) 18 c) 72 d) 12 Ans: d (w1/w2=m1*t1/m2*T2) 10) The citizens of planet nigiet are 6 fingered and have thus developed their decimal system in base 6. A certain street in nigiet contains 1000 (in base 8) buildings numbered 1 to 1000. How many 3s are used in numbering these buildings? a) 256 b) 54 c) 192 d) 108 Ans: d

11) 12 people {a1, a2, …, a12} meet and shake hands in a circular fashion. In other words, there are totally 36 handshakes involving the pairs, {a1, a2}, {a2, a3}, …, {a11, a12}, {a12, a1}. Then size of the smallest set of people such that the rest have shaken hands with at least one person in the set is a) 12 b) 4 c) 18 d) 11

Ans: B 12 ) Alice and Bob play the following coins-on-a-stack game. 100 coins are stacked one above the other. One of them is a special (gold) coin and the rest are ordinary coins. The goal is to bring the gold coin to the top by repeatedly moving the topmost coin to another position in the stack.

Alice starts and the players take turns. A turn consists of moving the coin on the top to a position i below the top coin (0 = i = 100). We will call this an i-move (thus a 0-move implies doing nothing). The proviso is that an i-move cannot be repeated; for example once a player makes a 2-move, on subsequent turns neither player can make a 2-move. If the gold coin happens to be on top when it’s a player’s turn then the player wins the game.

A. Alice has no winning strategy. B. Initially, the gold coinis the third coin from the top. Then C. In order to win, Alice’s first move should be a 0-move. D. In order to win, Alice’s first move should be a 1-move. Ans: D

13) A sheet of paper has statements numbered from 1 to 40. For all values of n from 1 to 40, statement n says: ‘Exactly n of the statements on this sheet are false.’ Which statements are true and which are false?

A. The even numbered statements are true and the odd numbered statements are false. B. The last second statement is true and the rest are false. C. The odd numbered statements are true and the even numbered statements are false. D. All the statements are false.

14) 10 people meet and shake hands. The maximum number of handshakes possible if there is to be no “cycle” of handshakes is (A cycle of handshakes is a sequence of k people a1, a2, ……, ak (k > 2) such that the pairs {a1, a2}, {a2, a3}, ……, {ak-1, ak}, {ak, a1} shake hands). a)7 b) 6 c) 9 d) 8

Ans: c 15) After the typist writes 12 letters and addresses 12 envelopes, she inserts the letters randomly into the envelopes (1 letter per envelope). What is the probability that exactly 1 letter is inserted in an improper envelope? a) 0 b) 12/212 c) 11/12 d) 1/12

Ans: a 16) 10 suspects are rounded by the police and questioned about a bank robbery. Only one of them is guilty. The suspects are made to stand in a line and each person declares that the person next to him on his right is guilty. The rightmost person is not questioned. Which of the following possibilities are true? A. All suspects are lying. B. leftmost suspect is innocent. C. leftmost suspect is guilty a) A only b) A or C c) A or B d) B only Ans: c

17) Given 3 lines in the plane such that the points of intersection form a triangle with sides of length 20, 20 and 30, the number of points equidistant from all the 3 lines is a) 4 b) 3 c) 0 d) 1

Ans: a 3 lines are given so ans is 4 one incenter and 3 excenters. If it is 3 line segments then ans would be 1 18) Alok and Bhanu play the following min-max game. Given the expression N = 15 + X*(Y – Z) Where X, Y and Z are variables representing single digits (0 to 9), Alok would like to maximize N while Bhanu would like to minimize it. Towards this end, Alok chooses a single digit number and Bhanu substitutes this for a variable of her choice (X, Y or Z). Alok then chooses the next value and Bhanu, the variable to substitute the value. Finally Alok proposes the value for the remaining variable. Assuming both play to their optimal strategies, the value of N at the end of the game would be Ans: 15+18 =33

19) A hare and a tortoise have a race along a circle of 100 yards diameter. The tortoise goes in one direction and the hare in the other. The hare starts after the tortoise has covered 1/5 of its distance and that too leisurely. The hare and tortoise meet when the hare has covered only 1/8 of the distance. By what factor should the hare increase its speed so as the win the race?(for this values are changed) a) 8 b) 5 c) 37 d) 80

Ans: c 20) A sheet of paper has statements numbered from 1 to 45. For all values of n from 1 to 45, statement n says “At most n of the statements on this sheet are false”. Which statements are true and which are false?

A. The odd numbered statements are true and the even numbered are false. B. The even numbered statements are true and the odd numbered are false. C. All statements are true. Ans: c 21) A hollow cube of size 5 cm is taken, with a thickness of 1 cm. It is made of smaller cubes of size 1 cm. If 1face of the outer surface of the cube are painted, totally how many faces of the smaller cubes remain unpainted? a) 900 b) 488 c) 563 d) 800 Ans: c 22) The IT giant Tirnop has recently crossed a head count of 150000 and earnings of $7 billion. As one of the forerunners in the technology front, Tirnop continues to lead the way in products and services in India. At Tirnop, all programmers are equal in every respect. They receive identical salaries ans also write code at the same rate.Suppose 12 such programmers take 12 minutes to write 12 lines of code in total. How many lines of code can be written by 72 programmers in 72 minutes? a) 72 b) 432 c) 12 d) 144 Ans: b

23) The teacher is testing a student’s proficiency in arithmetic and poses the following question. 1/3 of a number is 3 more than 1/6 of the same number. What is the number? Can you help the student find the answer?

a) 12 b) 18 c) 6 d) 21 Ans: b Alok and Bhanu play the following min-max game. Given the expression N = X – Y – Z

24) Where X, Y and Z are variables representing single digits (0 to 9), Alok would like to maximize N while Bhanu would like to minimize it. Towards this end, Alok chooses a single digit number and Bhanu substitutes this for a variable of her choice (X, Y or Z). Alok then chooses the next value and Bhanu, the variable to substitute the value. Finally Alok proposes the value for the remaining variable. Assuming both play to their optimal strategies, the value of N at the end of the game would be a) 2 b) 4 c) 9 d) -18

Ans: a

25) Horse started to chase dog as it relieved stable two hrs ago. And horse started to ran with average speed 22km/hr, horse crossed 10 mts road and two small pounds with depth 3m, and it crossed two small street with 200 mts length. After traveling 6 hrs, 2hrs after sunset it got dog. compute the speed of dog? Ans: As we have speed and travel time of horse, we can get distance travelled by it. Hence d = 22*6 = 132km, Exactly this 132km was travelled by dog in 8 hours (as it started two hours earlier). Hence speed of dog = 132/8 = 16.5km/hr Ans: 16.5km/hr.

26) A and B play a game between them. The dice consist of colors on their faces(instead of number). When the dice are thrown, A wins if both show the same color, otherwise B wins. One die has 3 red faces and 3 blue faces. How many red and blue faces should the other die have if the both players have if the both players have the same chances of winning? a) 5 red and 1 blue faces. b) 1 red and 5 blue faces. c) 3 red and 3 blue faces. Ans: c

27) In planet OZ planet there are 8 days, sunday to saturday and 8th day is Oz day. There is 36 hours in a day. What is angle between 12.40? a) 80 b) 81 c) 87 d) 89 Ans: 89

1. Alok is attending a workshop "How to do more with less" and today's theme is Working with fewer digits. The speakers discuss how a lot of miraculous mathematics can be

achieved if mankind (as well as woman kind) had only worked with fewer digits. The problem posed at the end of the workshop is how many 5 digit numbers can be formed using the digits 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 (but with repetition) that are divisible by 4? Can you help Alok find the answer? a) 375 b) 3125 c) 500 d) 625 Ans: d

2) A circular dartboard of radius 1 foot is at a distance of 20 feet from you. You throw a dart at it and it hits the dartboard at some point Q in the circle. What is the probability that Q is closer to the center of the circle than the periphery? a) 0.75 b) 1 c) 0.25 d) 0.5 Ans: 0.25

3) 36 people {a1, a2, ..., a36} meet and shake hands in a circular fashion. In other words, there are totally 36 handshakes involving the pairs, {a1, a2}, {a2, a3}, ..., {a35, a36}, {a36, a1}. Then size of the smallest set of people such that the rest have shaken hands with at least one person in the set is a) 13 b) 18 c) 11 d) 12

Ans: 12

4) The IT giant Tirnop has recently crossed a head count of 150000 and earnings of $7 billion. As one of the forerunners in the technology front, Tirnop continues to lead the way in products and services in India. At Tirnop, all programmers are equal in every respect. They receive identical salaries ans also write code at the same rate. Suppose 12 such programmers take 12 minutes to write 12 lines of code in total. How long will it take 72 programmers to write 72 lines of code in total? a) 18 b) 72 c) 6 d) 12 Ans: 12

5) After the typist writes 12 letters and addresses 12 envelopes, she inserts the letters randomly into the envelopes (1 letter per envelope). What is the probability that exactly 1 letter is inserted in an improper envelope? a) 0 b) 1/12 c) 11/12 d) 12/212 Ans: 0

6) A sheet of paper has statements numbered from 1 to 40. For all values of n from 1 to 40, statement n says: 'Exactly and of the statements on this sheet are false.' Which statements are true and which are false? a) The 39th statement is true and the rest are false. All the statements are false. b) The odd numbered statements are true and the even numbered statements are false. c) The even numbered statements are true and the odd numbered statements are false Ans: A

7) A sheet of paper has statements numbered from 1 to 40. For each value of n from 1 to 40, statement and says "At least n of the statements on this sheet are true." Which statements are true and which are false?

a) The odd numbered statements are true and the even numbered are false. b) The first 26 statements are false and the rest are true. c) The even numbered statements are true and the odd numbered are false. d) The first 13 statements are true and the rest are false. Ans: D

8) 10 suspects are rounded by the police and questioned about a bank robbery. Only one of them is guilty. The suspects are made to stand in a line and each person declares that the person next to him on his right is guilty. The right most person is not questioned. Which of the following possibilities are true? A. All suspects are lying or the leftmost suspect is innocent. B. All suspects are lying and the leftmost suspect is innocent . Neither A nor B Both A and B B only A only Ans:D

9) Given 3 lines in the plane such that the points of intersection form a triangle with sides of length 20, 20 and 30, the number of points equidistant from all the 3 lines is a) 4 b) 3 c) 1 d) 0 Ans: 4

10) The citizens of planet nigiet are 8 fingered and have thus developed their decimal system in base 8. A certain street in nigiet contains 1000 (in base 8) buildings numbered 1 to 1000. How many 3s are used in numbering these buildings? a) 256 b) 64 c) 192 d) 54 Ans: 192 11) 10 people meet and shake hands. The maximum number of handshakes possible if there is to be no "cycle" of handshakes is (A cycle of handshakes is a sequence of k people a1, a2, ......, ak (k > 2) such that the pairs {a1, a2}, {a2, a3}, ......, {ak-1, ak}, {ak, a1} shake hands). a) 9 b) 8 c) 7 d) 6 Ans: 9

12) For the FIFA world cup, Paul the octopus has been predicting the winner of each match with amazing success. It is rumored that in a match between 2 teams A and B, Paul picks A with the same probability as A's chances of winning. Let's assume such rumors to be true and that in a match between Ghana and Bolivia, Ghana the stronger team has a probability of 2/3 of winning the game. What is the probability that Paul will correctly pick the winner of the Ghana-Bolivia game? a) 5/9 b) 1/9 c) 2/3 d) 4/9

Ans: 5/9

13) On planet zorba, a solar blast has melted the ice caps on its equator. 8 years after the ice melts, tiny plantoids called echina start growing on the rocks. echina grows in the form of a circle and the relationship between the diameter of this circle and the age of echina is given by the formula d = 4 * √ (t - 8) for t ≥ 8 Where the represents the diameter in mm and t the number of years since the solar blast. Jagan recorded the radius of some echina at a particular spot as 8mm. How many years back did the solar blast occur?

a) 12 b) 16 c) 8 d) 24

Just substitute values then you get ans

14) Alok and Bhanu play the following min-max game. Given the expression N = 9 + X + Y - Z

Where X, Y and Z are variables representing single digits (0 to 9), Alok would like to maximize N while Bhanu would like to minimize it. Towards this end, Alok chooses a single digit number and Bhanu substitutes this for a variable of her choice (X, Y or Z). Alok then chooses the next value and Bhanu, the variable to substitute the value. Finally Alok proposes the value for the remaining variable.

Assuming both play to their optimal strategies, the value of N at the end of the game would be a) 27 b) 0.0 c) 20 d) 18 Ans: 20 15) Lion and tiger are there. Lion lies on Monday, Tues, Wends and Tiger lies on Thurs, Frid, Sat. Lion said that today is one of those days when I lies. Tiger said that today is one of those days when I lie too. Then find today? 1/3 rd of a number is more 3 than the 1/6th of a number then find the number? Ans:18

16) Two tanks A and B. A fills 1 ltr/1 hour B fills 10, 20, 30 per hour. If this is (passage unnecessary). If 1/4th tank of B takes 15 hours to fill how much it time will to take to fill complete tank? Ans:17

17) Out of 7 children the youngest is boy then find the probability that all the remaining children are boys Ans: 1/2^6 = 1/64

18) A Toy train can make 10 sounds sound changes after every 4 mins, now train is defective and can make only 2 sounds. Find probability that same sound is repeated 5 times

consecutively (1 out of)? Ans: 1/32

19) 20men and 20 women are there, they dance with each other, is there possibilty that 2 men are dancing with same women and vice versa. Ans: Never

20) In school there are some bicycles and 4wheeler wagons. One Tuesday there are 234 wheels in the campus. How many bicycles are there?

Ans: Go with options. Multiply each option with 2 and subtact the obtained no from 234. If it is exactly divisible by 4, that is the answer. 21) A father has 7 penny’s with him and 1 water melon is for 1p, 2 chickoos for 1p, 3 grapes foe 1p. He has three sons. How can he share the friuts equally? Ans: 1 watermelon, 2chickoos, 1grape

22) A piza shop made pizzas with to flavours. In home there are ‘9’ different flavors, in that ‘2’ flavors are taken to made piza in how many ways they can arrange? (Logic: NcM, N= 9, M=2 )

23) One organization, material, labor and maintenance are in the ratio of 4:6:7, if the material cost is: 272, what is the total cost?

Ans: 4x=272 => x=68; now total cost = 272 + 6(68)+7(68).

24) 4 years before Paul’s age is 3times the Alice age and the present age of Paul is 6times the Alice. What is the presents Paul’s age? Ans: x-4 = 3(y-4); x=6y: Solve you will get it. 25) In a question, last part has, the ages of two people has the ratio of 6:5 and by adding the numbers we get 55, after how many years the ratio would be 8:7? Ans: Easy you can do it, simple equtions 26) In a room (unwanted stuff) Sports readers, 10 tables, 4 chairs per table, each table has different number of people then how many tables will left without at least one person? Ans : 6

1) (1/3) of a number is 6 more than the (1/6) of the same number? a) 6 b) 18 c) 36 d) 24

2) There are two water tanks A and B, A is much smaller than B. While water fills at the rate of 1 liter every hour in A, it gets filled up like 10, 20, 40, 80, 160 in tank B. 1/8 th of the tank B is filled in 22 hours. What is the time to fill the tank fully? a) 26 B) 25 c) 5 d) 27

3) A hare and a tortoise have a race along a circle of 100 yards diameter. The tortoise goes in one direction and the hare in the other. The hare starts after the tortoise has coverd 1/4

of its distance and that too leisurely. The hare and tortoise meet when the hare has covered only 1/8 of the distance.By what factor should the hare increse its speed so as to tie the race? Ans: 35.00

4) A sheet of paper has statements numbered from 1 to 30. For all values of n from 1 to 30, statement n says "At most n of the statements on this sheet are false". Which statements are true and which are false?

This type of question repeated for me three time just replacing atmost with exactly, atleast.

7) On the planet Oz, there are 8 days in a week Sunday to Saturday and another day call Oz day. There are 36 hours in a day and each hour has 90 mins while each minute has 60 sec. As on earth, the hour hand covers the dial twice every day. Find the approximate angle between the hands of a clock on Oz when the time is 10.40 am. Ans: Aroung 59 degrees

8) The citizens of planet nigiet are 8 fingered and have thus developed their decimal system in base 8. A certain street in nigiet contains 1000 in base buildings numbered 1 to 1000. How many 4's are used in numbering these buildings?Express your answer in base10? Ans: 192

9) A girl has to make pizza with different toppings. There are 8 different toppings. In how many ways can she make pizzas with 2 different toppings?

a) 16 b) 56 c) 112 d) 28

10) A car manufacturer produces only red and blue models which come out of the final testing area at random. What are the odds that five consecutive cars of same color will come through the test area at any one time? a)1 in 16 b)1 in 125 c)1 in 32 d)1 in 25

11) A lady has fine gloves and hats in her closet- 18 blue, 32 red, and 25 yellow. The lights are out and it is totally dark. In spite of the darkness, she can make out the difference between a hat and a glove. She takes out an item out of the closet only if she is sure that if it is a glove. How many gloves must she take out to make sure she has a pair of each color? a) 50 b) 8 c) 60 d) 42

This type was repeated two times

14) Middle- earth is a fictional land inhabited by hobbits, elves, dwarves and men. The hobbits and elves are peaceful creatures that prefer slow, silent lives and appreciate nature and art. The dwarves and the men engage in physical games. The game is as follows. A tournament is one where out of the two teams that play a match, the one that loses get eliminated. The matches are played in different rounds, where in every round; half of the teams get eliminated from the tournament. If there are 8 rounds played in knock out tournament, how many matches were played? a) 257 b) 256 c) 72 d) 255

Ans)255

15)20 men handshake with each other without repetition. What is the total number of handshakes made? a)190 b)210 c)150 d)250

16) Alok and Bhanu play the following min-max game. given the expression N= 12+X*(Y-Z)

Where X, Y, Z are variables repersenting single digits(0 to 9). Alok would like to maximize N while Bhanu would like to minimize it. Towards this end,Alok chooses a single digit number and Bhanu substitutes this for a variable of her choice (X,Y,Z). Alok then chooses next value and Bhanu the variable to substitute the value finally Alok proposes the value for the remaining variable Assumig both play to their optimal strategies the value of N at the end or the game would be?

This type also repeated for three time with change of exp Ans: Better go through the options given NEVER place 0 or 9 in the Expression

20) On planet korba, a solar blast has melted the ice caps on its equator. 9 years after the ice melts, tiny planetoids called echina start growing on the rocks. Echina grows in the form of circle, and the relationship between the diameter of this circle and the age of echina is given by the formula d = 4*√ (t-9) for t ≥ 9 where d represents the diameter in mm and t the number of years since the solar blast.Jagan recorded the radius of some echina at a particular spot as 7mm. How many years back did the solar blast occur?

a) 17 b)21.25 c)12.25 d)14.05

21) Ferrari S.P.A is an Italian sports car manufacturer based in Maranello, Italy. Founded by Enzo Ferrari in 1928 as Scuderia Ferrari, the company sponsored drivers and manufactured race cars before moving into production of street-legal vehicles in 1947 as Ferrari S.P.A. Throughout its history, the company has been noted for its continued participation in racing, especially in Formula One where it has employed great success .Rohit once bought a Ferrari. It could go 4 times as fast as Mohan's old Mercedes. If the speed of Mohan's Mercedes is 35 km/hr and the distance traveled by the Ferrari is 490 km, find the total time taken for Rohit to drive that distance.

a) 20.72 b) 5.18 c) 238.25 d) 6.18

Ans) simple one you can slove it

22) How many 9 digit numbers are possible by using the digits 1,2,3,4,5 which are divisible by 4 if the repetition is allowed? a) 5^7 b) 5^6 c) 5^9 d) 5^8 Ans: 5^8

23) Given a collection of points P in the plane , a 1-set is a point in P that can be separated from the rest by a line, .i.e the point lies on one side of the line while the others lie on the

other side. The number of 1-sets of P is denoted by n1(P). The minimum value of n1(P) over all configurations P of 11 points in the plane in general position (.i.e no three points in P lie on a line) is

a) 3 b) 11 c) 2 d) 8 24) In a family there are some boys and girls. All boys told that they are having equal no of brothers and sisters and girls told that they are having twice the no. of brothers than sisters. How many boys and girls present in a family?

Ans: 4 boys and 3 girls

25) Alok and Bhanu play the following coins in a circle game. 99 coins are arranged in a circle with each coin touching two other coin. Two of the coins are special and the rest are ordinary. Alok starts and the players take turns removing an ordinary coin of their choice from the circle and bringing the other coins closer until they again form a (smaller) circle. The goal is to bring the special coins adjacentto each other and the first player to do so wins the game. Initially the special coins are separated by two ordinary coins O1 and O2. Which of the following is true?

a) In order to win, Alok should remove O1 on his first turn. b) In order to win, Alok should remove one of the coins different from O1 and O2 on his first turn. c) In order to win, Alok should remove O2 on his first turn. d) Alok has no winning strategy.

These are some questions that i face I answered totally 32 questions. Don't answer all 35 questions correctly even if you know there may be a chance of upper cutoff.

1. Alok is attending a workshop "How to do more with less" and today's theme is Working

with fewer digits. The speakers discuss how a lot of miraculous mathematics can be

achieved if mankind (as well as woman kind) had only worked with fewer digits. The

problem posed at the end of the workshop is how many 5 digit numbers can be formed

using the digits 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 (but with repetition) that are divisible by 4? Can you help Alok

find the answer?

a) 375 b) 3125 c) 500 d) 625

Ans: d

2) A circular dartboard of radius 1 foot is at a distance of 20 feet from you. You throw a dart

at it and it hits the dartboard at some point Q in the circle. What is the probability that Q is

closer to the center of the circle than the periphery?

a) 0.75 b) 1 c) 0.25 d) 0.5

Ans: 0.25

3) 36 people {a1, a2, ..., a36} meet and shake hands in a circular fashion. In other

words, there are totally 36 handshakes involving the pairs, {a1, a2}, {a2, a3}, ..., {a35, a36},

{a36, a1}. Then size of the smallest set of people such that the rest have shaken hands with

at least one person in the set is

a) 13 b) 18 c) 11 d) 12

Ans: 12

4) The IT giant Tirnop has recently crossed a head count of 150000 and earnings of $7

billion. As one of the forerunners in the technology front, Tirnop continues to lead the way

in products and services in India. At Tirnop, all programmers are equal in every respect.

They receive identical salaries ans also write code at the same rate. Suppose 12 such

programmers take 12 minutes to write 12 lines of code in total. How long will it take 72

programmers to write 72 lines of code in total?

a) 18 b) 72 c) 6 d) 12

Ans: 12

5) After the typist writes 12 letters and addresses 12 envelopes, she inserts the letters

randomly into the envelopes (1 letter per envelope). What is the probability that exactly 1

letter is inserted in an improper envelope?

a) 0 b) 1/12 c) 11/12 d) 12/212

Ans: 0

6) A sheet of paper has statements numbered from 1 to 40. For all values of n from 1 to 40,

statement n says: 'Exactly and of the statements on this sheet are false.' Which statements

are true and which are false?

a) The 39th statement is true and the rest are false. All the statements are false.

b) The odd numbered statements are true and the even numbered statements are false.

c) The even numbered statements are true and the odd numbered statements are false

Ans: A

7) A sheet of paper has statements numbered from 1 to 40. For each value of n from 1 to

40, statement and says "At least n of the statements on this sheet are true." Which

statements are true and which are false?

a) The odd numbered statements are true and the even numbered are false.

b) The first 26 statements are false and the rest are true.

c) The even numbered statements are true and the odd numbered are false.

d) The first 13 statements are true and the rest are false.

Ans: D

8) 10 suspects are rounded by the police and questioned about a bank robbery. Only one of

them is guilty.

The suspects are made to stand in a line and each person declares that the person next to

him on his right is guilty. The right most person is not questioned. Which of the following

possibilities are true?

A. All suspects are lying or the leftmost suspect is innocent.

B. All suspects are lying and the leftmost suspect is innocent .

Neither A nor B

Both A and B

B only

A only

Ans:D

9) Given 3 lines in the plane such that the points of intersection form a triangle with sides of

length 20, 20 and 30, the number of points equidistant from all the 3 lines is

a) 4 b) 3 c) 1 d) 0

Ans: 4

10) The citizens of planet nigiet are 8 fingered and have thus developed their decimal

system in base 8. A certain street in nigiet contains 1000 (in base 8) buildings numbered 1 to

1000. How many 3s are used in numbering these buildings?

a) 256 b) 64 c) 192 d) 54

Ans: 192

11) 10 people meet and shake hands. The maximum number of handshakes possible if there

is to be no "cycle" of handshakes is (A cycle of handshakes is a sequence of k people a1, a2,

......, ak (k > 2) such that the pairs {a1, a2}, {a2, a3}, ......, {ak-1, ak}, {ak, a1} shake hands).

a) 9 b) 8 c) 7 d) 6

Ans: 9

12) For the FIFA world cup, Paul the octopus has been predicting the winner of each match

with amazing success. It is rumored that in a match between 2 teams A and B, Paul picks A

with the same probability as A's chances of winning.

Let's assume such rumors to be true and that in a match between Ghana and Bolivia, Ghana

the stronger team has a probability of 2/3 of winning the game. What is the probability that

Paul will correctly pick the winner of the Ghana-Bolivia game?

a) 5/9 b) 1/9 c) 2/3 d) 4/9

Ans: 5/9

13) On planet zorba, a solar blast has melted the ice caps on its equator. 8 years after the ice

melts, tiny plantoids called echina start growing on the rocks. echina grows in the form of a

circle and the relationship between the diameter of this circle and the age of echina is given

by the formula

d = 4 * √ (t - 8) for t ≥ 8

Where the represents the diameter in mm and t the number of years since the solar blast.

Jagan recorded the radius of some echina at a particular spot as 8mm. How many years back

did the solar blast occur?

a) 12

b) 16

c) 8

d) 24

Just substitute values then you get ans

14) Alok and Bhanu play the following min-max game. Given the expression

N = 9 + X + Y - Z

Where X, Y and Z are variables representing single digits (0 to 9), Alok would like to

maximize N while Bhanu would like to minimize it. Towards this end, Alok chooses a single

digit number and Bhanu substitutes this for a variable of her choice (X, Y or Z). Alok then

chooses the next value and Bhanu, the variable to substitute the value. Finally Alok

proposes the value for the remaining variable.

Assuming both play to their optimal strategies, the value of N at the end of the game would

be

a) 27 b) 0.0 c) 20 d) 18

Ans: 20

15) Lion and tiger are there. Lion lies on Monday, Tues, Wends and Tiger lies on Thurs, Frid,

Sat. Lion said that today is one of those days when I lies. Tiger said that today is one of those

days when I lie too. Then find today?

1/3 rd of a number is more 3 than the 1/6th of a number then find the number?

Ans:18

16) Two tanks A and B. A fills 1 ltr/1 hour B fills 10, 20, 30 per hour. If this is (passage

unnecessary). If 1/4th tank of B takes 15 hours to fill how much it time will to take to fill

complete tank?

Ans:17

17) Out of 7 children the youngest is boy then find the probability that all the remaining

children are boys

Ans: 1/2^6 = 1/64

18) A Toy train can make 10 sounds sound changes after every 4 mins, now train is defective

and can make only 2 sounds. Find probability that same sound is repeated 5 times

consecutively (1 out of)?

Ans: 1/32

19) 20men and 20 women are there, they dance with each other, is there possibilty that 2

men are dancing with same women and vice versa.

Ans: Never

20) In school there are some bicycles and 4wheeler wagons. One Tuesday there are 234

wheels in the campus. How many bicycles are there?

Ans: Go with options. Multiply each option with 2 and subtact the obtained no from 234. If

it is exactly divisible by 4, that is the answer.

21) A father has 7 penny’s with him and 1 water melon is for 1p, 2 chickoos for 1p, 3 grapes

foe 1p. He has three sons. How can he share the friuts equally?

Ans: 1 watermelon, 2chickoos, 1grape

22) A piza shop made pizzas with to flavours. In home there are ‘9’ different flavors, in that

‘2’ flavors are taken to made piza in how many ways they can arrange?

(Logic: NcM, N= 9, M=2 )

23) One organization, material, labor and maintenance are in the ratio of 4:6:7, if the

material cost is: 272, what is the total cost?

Ans: 4x=272 => x=68; now total cost = 272 + 6(68)+7(68).

24) 4 years before Paul’s age is 3times the Alice age and the present age of Paul is 6times

the Alice. What is the presents Paul’s age?

Ans: x-4 = 3(y-4); x=6y: Solve you will get it.

25) In a question, last part has, the ages of two people has the ratio of 6:5 and by adding the

numbers we get 55, after how many years the ratio would be 8:7?

Ans: Easy you can do it, simple equtions

26) In a room (unwanted stuff) Sports readers, 10 tables, 4 chairs per table, each table has different number of people then how many tables will left without at least one person? Ans : 6

Please appear in the TCS mock test which gonna give you enough confidence. Aptitude test: (35 Questions, 80 mins, online test) 1. A Person buys a horse for 15 ponds, after one year he sells it for 20 pounds. After one year, again he buys the same horse at 30 pounds and sells it for 40 pounds. What is the profit for that person? 2. John buys a cycle for 31 dollars and given a cheque of amount 35 dollars. Shop Keeper exchanged the cheque with his neighbor and gave change to John. After 2 days, it is known that cheque is bounced. Shop keeper paid the amount to his neighbor. The cost price of cycle is 19 dollars. What is the profit/loss for shop keeper? a) Loss 23 b) gain 23 c) gain 54 d) Loss 54 3. Ferrari S.P.A is an Italian sports car manufacturer based in Maranello, Italy. Founded by Enzo Ferrari in 1928 as Scuderia Ferrari, the company sponsored drivers and manufactured race cars before moving into production of street-legal vehicles in 1947 as Ferrari S.P.A. Throughout its history, the company has been noted for its continued participation in

racing, especially in Formula One where it has employed great success .Rohit once bought a Ferrari. It could go 4 times as fast as Mohan's old Mercedes. If the speed of Mohan's Mercedes is 35 km/hr and the distance traveled by the Ferrari is 490 km, find the total time taken for Rohit to drive that distance. a) 20.72 b) 5.18 c) 238.25 d) 6.18 4. A circular dartboard of radius 1 foot is at a distance of 20 feet from you. You throw a dart at it and it hits the dartboard at some point Q in the circle. What is the probability that Q is closer to the center of the circle than the periphery? 0.75,1,.5,.25 Ans: Probability= (area of inner circle)/(area of outer circle) i.e (r/2)^2/r^2 =1/4=0.25 5. On planet zorba, a solar blast has melted the ice caps on its equator. 8 years after the ice melts, tiny plantoids called echina start growing on the rocks. echina grows in the form of a circle and the relationship between the diameter of this circle and the age of echina is given by the formula d = 4 * v (t – 8 ) for t = 8 Where d represents the diameter in mm and t the number of years since the solar blast. Jagan recorded the radius of some echina at a particular spot as 8mm. How many years back did the solar blast occur? a) 24 b)12 c)8 d)16 Ans: Simple substitutional problem 6. Alok and Bhanu play the following min-max game. Given the expression N = 9 + X + Y – Z Where X, Y and Z are variables representing single digits (0 to 9), Alok would like to maximize N while Bhanu would like to minimize it. Towards this end, Alok chooses a single digit number and Bhanu substitutes this for a variable of her choice (X, Y or Z). Alok then chooses the next value and Bhanu, the variable to substitute the value. Finally Alok proposes the value for the remaining variable. Assuming both play to their optimal strategies, the value of N at the end of the game would be a) 27 b)18 c) 20 7. For the FIFA world cup, Paul the octopus has been predicting the winner of each match with amazing success. It is rumored that in a match between 2 teams A and B, Paul picks A with the same probability as A’s chances of winning. Let’s assume such rumors to be true and that in a match between Ghana and Bolivia, Ghana the stronger team has a probability of 2/3 of winning the game. What is the probability that Paul will correctly pick the winner of the Ghana-Bolivia game? a) 4/9 b) 2/3 c) 1/3 d) 5/9

Ans: Paul will choose the team with the same probability as the team will win So the final probability is (2/3)*(2/3)+(1/3)*(1/3)=5/9

8) The IT giant Tirnop has recently crossed a head count of 150000 and earnings of $7 billion. As one of the forerunners in the technology front, Tirnop continues to lead the way in products and services in India. At Tirnop, all programmers are equal in every respect. They receive identical salaries ans also write code at the same rate.Suppose 12 such programmers take 12 minutes to write 12 lines of code in total. How long will it take 72 programmers to write 72 lines of code in total? a) 6 b) 18 c) 72 d) 12 Ans: Apply (n1)*(t1)/(w1)= (n2)*(t2)/(w2) where n1, n2 are number of people t1, t2 are time w1, w2 are work 9) 36 people {a1, a2, …, a36} meet and shake hands in a circular fashion. In other words, there are totally 36 handshakes involving the pairs, {a1, a2}, {a2, a3}, …, {a35, a36}, {a36, a1}. Then size of the smallest set of people such that the rest have shaken hands with at least one person in the set is? a) 11 b) 12 c) 13 d) 18 Ans: 18 10) A sheet of paper has statements numbered from 1 to 40. For all values of n from 1 to 40, statement n says: ‘Exactly n of the statements on this sheet are false.’ Which statements are true and which are false? a)The even numbered statements are true and the odd numbered statements are false. b)The 39th statement is true and the rest are false. c)The odd numbered statements are true and the even numbered statements are false. d)All the statements are false. Ans:B 11. After the typist writes 12 letters and addresses 12 envelopes, she inserts the letters randomly into the envelopes (1 letter per envelope). What is the probability that exactly 1 letter is inserted in an improper envelope? Ans: 0 12) 10 suspects are rounded by the police and questioned about a bank robbery. Only one of them is guilty. The suspects are made to stand in a line and each person declares that the person next to him on his right is guilty. The rightmost person is not questioned. Which of the following possibilities are true? a) All suspects are lying or the leftmost suspect is innocent. b) All suspects are lying and the leftmost suspect is innocent . A only Neither A nor B

Both A and B B only

13) Given 3 lines in the plane such that the points of intersection form a triangle with sides of length 20, 20 and 30, the number of points equidistant from all the 3 lines is Ans: 1, incentre

14) One day Rapunzel meets Dwarf and Byte in the Forest of forgetfulness. She knows that Dwarf lies on Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays, and tells the truth on the other days of the week. Byte, on the other hand, lies on Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays, but tells the truth on the other days of the week. Now they make the following statements to Rapunzel – Dwarf: Yesterday was one of those days when I lie. Byte: Yesterday was one of those days when I lie too. What day is it?

Friday, Saturday, Thursday, Wednesday Ans: Thursday 15. A hollow cube of size 5 cm is taken, with a thickness of 1 cm. It is made of smaller cubes of size 1 cm. If 4 faces of the outer surface of the cube are painted, totally how many faces of the smaller cubes remain unpainted? a) 488 b) 800 c) 900 d) 500 Ans: First take 5 cm cube so its volume is 5^3=125 and it is hallow of 1 cm thickness so the inner cube has 3cm edge so its volume is 27 subtraction 125-27=98 so 98 1cm cubes can be made in those 98 18 are no color face cubes so no of faces which are not coloured are 18*6=108 20 are two color face cubes so 20*4=80 faces are not coloured 60 are one colored faces so 60*5=300 faces are not coloured.so totally 108+80+300 faces are not colored

16) Alok and Bhanu play the following min-max game. Given the expression N = X – Y – Z Where X, Y and Z are variables representing single digits (0 to 9), Alok would like to maximize N while Bhanu would like to minimize it. Towards this end, Alok chooses a single digit number and Bhanu substitutes this for a variable of her choice (X, Y or Z). Alok then chooses the next value and Bhanu, the variable to substitute the value. Finally Alok proposes the value for the remaining variable. Assuming both play to their optimal strategies, the value of N at the end of the game would be a) 9 b) -18 c) 2 d) 20

Ans: -18

17) A greengrocer was selling apple at a penny each, chickoos at 2 for a penny and peanuts at 3 for a penny. A father spent 7p and got the same amount of each type of fruit for each of his three children. What did each child get?

1 apple, 2 chickoos, 2 peanuts 1 apple, 3 chickoos, 2 peanuts 1 apple, 1 chickoo, 1 peanut

Ans: Elimination process. Given 7p Let us take 3 apples Total cost=3*1=3p So each boy gets “1 apple”(as 3 boys share each of them equally) Now we remain wid 4p2 chochos for 1p Total cost for 6 chokoes 1p*3=3p Now that we share those 2 chocs equally among the 3 children. Now we remain with 1p For 1p we get 3 peanuts we share those 3 among the 3 boys equallyso finally For each boy

a) 1 apple b) 2 chockos c) 1 peanuts 18) The teacher is testing a student’s proficiency in arithmetic and poses the following question. 1/3 of a number is 3 more than 1/6 of the same number. What is the number? Can you help the student find the answer? a) 12 b) 21 c) 6 d) 18 19) A hare and a tortoise have a race along a circle of 100 yards diameter. The tortoise goes in one direction and the hare in the other. The hare starts after the tortoise has covered 1/5 of its distance and that too leisurely. The hare and tortoise meet when the hare has covered only 1/8 of the distance. By what factor should the hare increase its speed so as to tie the race? a) 37.80 b) 8 c) 40 Ans: 37.80 20) There are two boxes, one containing 10 red balls and the other containing 10 green balls. You are allowed to move the balls between the boxes so that when you choose a box at random and a ball at random from the chosen box, the probability of getting a red ball is maximized. This maximum probability is a) 1/2 b) 14/19 c) 37/38 d) 3/4 Ans: 14/19 21) The IT giant Tirnop has recently crossed a head count of 150000 and earnings of $7 billion. As one of the forerunners in the technology front, Tirnop continues to lead the way in products and services in India. At Tirnop, all programmers are equal in every respect. They receive identical salaries ans also write code at the same rate.Suppose 12 such programmers take 12 minutes to write 12 lines of code in total. How long will it take 72

programmers to write 72 lines of code in total? a) 12 b) 6 c) 72 d) 18 Ans: Simple formula. people X time /lines = people1 X time1 / lines1 12×12/12 = 72 x x/72 solve for x x=12 Answer: 12 22) There are two statements. There is also a question. Choose 1 if the question can be answered by using either one. Choose 2 if the question can be answered using both the statements. Choose 3 if the question can not be answered using these two statements Statement 1: Avinash spends 30% on house rent, 20% on children’s education,40% on foods Statement 2: Pritam spends 20% on house rent, 45% on children’s education,20% on food Question: If pritam spends more than avinash on foods who spends more on children’s education? The question can be answered by a) 1 b) 2 c)3 Ans: c

23) There are pepsi 1 litre & oil 1 litre. It is given as 1 spoon of pepsi is aken and is mixed with Oil. Then 1 spoon oil&pepsi is taken and is mixed with pepsi then which of the condition holds true. Easy.

These are a few questions which i can remember now. cut off was around 21-22. The interview round was a cake walk for me. Basically i am a electronics and telecomm student so they stressed me only on my core subjects like wireless communication, broadband communication etc. Be thorough with all the basics and success is yours. They asked a few very easy programming questions like a) Difference b/w C and C++ In my college around 700 students were allowed for direct interview for securing 75% in 10th, 12th and 7.5 cgpa upto 6th sem. Remaining 1300 students were seating for the aptitude test, out of which 750 students cleared the test. I also cleared the test. i.e. total 1450 students were in the process of interview. Out of which a mammoth 1080 students were placed in TCS.

I got my offer letter via email on 28th November'2010. This is probably a day which should be written in history when a company has selected 1080 students from a single college.

1) Find the approximate angle between the hands of a clock on Oz when the time is 12:40 am. a) 71 b) 251 c) 111 d) 89

Ans: 89

2) The IT giant Tirnop has recently crossed a head count of 150000 and earnings of $7 billion. As one of the forerunners in the technology front, Tirnop continues to lead the way in products and services in India. At Tirnop, all programmers are equal in every respect. They receive identical salaries ans also write code at the same rate.Suppose 12 such programmers take 12 minutes to write 12 lines of code in total. How long will it take 72 programmers to write 72 lines of code in total? a) 6 b) 12 c) 72 d) 18 Ans: 12

3) A hollow cube of size 5 cm is taken, with a thickness of 1 cm. It is made of smaller cubes of size 1 cm. If 4 faces of the outer surface of the cube are painted, totally how many faces of the smaller cubes remain unpainted? a) 800 b) 488 c) 900 d) 500 Ans: 488 4) The IT giant Tirnop has recently crossed a head count of 150000 and earnings of $7 billion. As one of the forerunners in the technology front, Tirnop continues to lead the way in products and services in India. At Tirnop, all programmers are equal in every respect. They receive identical salaries ans also write code at the same rate.Suppose 12 such programmers take 12 minutes to write 12 lines of code in total. How many lines of code can be written by 72 programmers in 72 minutes? a) 432 b) 6 c) 12 d) 72 Ans: 432 5) Ferrari S.p.A. is an Italian sports car manufacturer based in Maranello, Italy. Founded by Enzo Ferrari in 1928 as Scuderia Ferrari, the company sponsored drivers and manufactured race cars before moving into production of street-legal vehicles in 1947 as Ferrari S.p.A.. Throughout its history, the company has been noted for its continued participation in racing, especially in Formula One, where it has enjoyed great success. Rohit once bought a Ferrari. It could go 2 times as fast as Mohit's old Mercedes. If the speed of Mohit's Mercedes is 32 km/hr and the distance travelled by the Ferrari is 952 km, find the total time taken in hours for Rohit to drive that distance. a) 15.88 b) 14.88 c) 476 d) 29.75

Ans: 14.88

6) Given a collection of points P in the plane, a 1-set is a point in P that can be separated from the rest by a line; i.e. the point lies on one side of the line while the others lie on the

other side. The number of 1-sets of P is denoted by n1(P). The maximum value of n1(P) over all configurations P of 10 points in the plane is a) 5 b) 3 c) 9 d) 10 Ans: 10 The teacher is testing a student's proficiency in arithmetic and poses the following question. 7) 1/3 of a number is 3 more than 1/6 of the same number. What is the number? Can you help the student find the answer? a) 18 b) 21 c) 12 d) 6

Alok and Bhanu play the following min-max game. Given the expression

N = 12 + X*(Y - Z)

Where X, Y and Z are variables representing single digits (0 to 9), Alok would like to maximize N while Bhanu would like to minimize it. Towards this end, Alok chooses a single digit number and Bhanu substitutes this for a variable of her choice (X, Y or Z). Alok then chooses the next value and Bhanu, the variable to substitute the value. Finally Alok proposes the value for the remaining variable. Assuming both play to their optimal strategies, the value of N at the end of the game would be

a) 93 b) 12 c) -69 d) 30

Ans: 12

8) The pacelength P is the distance between the rear of two consecutive footprints. For men, the formula, n/P = 144 gives an approximate relationship between n and P where, n = number of steps per minute and P = pacelength in meters. Bernard knows his pacelength is 164cm. The formula applies to Bernard's walking. Calculate Bernard's walking speed in kmph.

a) 23.62 b) 8.78 c) 11.39 d) 236.16

Ans: 23.62

9) There are two boxes, one containing 10 red balls and the other containing 10 green balls. You are allowed to move the balls between the boxes so that when you choose a box at random and a ball at random from the chosen box, the probability of getting a red ball is maximized. This maximum probability is

a) 3/4 b) 37/38 c) 1/2 d) 14/19

Ans: 14/19

10) A hare and a tortoise have a race along a circle of 100 yards diameter. The tortoise goes in one direction and the hare in the other. The hare starts after the tortoise has covered 1/5 of its distance and that too leisurely. The hare and tortoise meet when the hare has covered only 1/8 of the distance. By what factor should the hare increase its speed so as to tie the race?

a) 40 b) 37.80 c) 8 d) 5

Ans: 37.8 11) A sheet of paper has statements numbered from 1 to 30. For all values of n from 1 to 30, statement n says "At most n of the statements on this sheet are false". Which statements are true and which are false? a) All statements are false. b) All statements are true. c) The even numbered statements are true and the odd numbered are false. d) The odd numbered statements are true and the even numbered are false.

Ans: b

12) There are two water tanks A and B, A is much smaller than B. While water fills at the rate of one litre every hour in A, it gets filled up like 10, 20, 40, 80, 160 .. in tank B. (At the end of first hour, B has 10 litres, second hour it has 20, and so on). If 1/32 of B's volume is filled after 3 hours, what is the total duration required to fill it completely?

a) 9 hours b) 7 hours c) 10 hours d) 8 hours

Ans: 8

13) Planet fourfi resides in 4-dimensional space and thus the currency used by its residents are 3-dimensional objects. The rupee notes are cubical in shape while their coins are spherical. However the coin minting machinery lays out some stipulations on the size of the coins.

• The diameter of the coins should be at least 64mm and not exceed 512mm.

• Given a coin, the diameter of the next larger coin is at least 50% greater.

• The diameter of the coin must always be an integer.

14) You are asked to design a set of coins of different diameters with these requirements and your goal is to design as many coins as possible. How many coins can you design?

a) 8 b) 5 c) 6 d) 9

Ans: 6

14) Anoop managed to draw 7 circles of equal radii with their centres on the diagonal of a square such that the two extreme circles touch two sides of the square and each middle circle touches two circles on either side. Find the ratio of the radius of the circles to the side of the square.

a) 1:(4+ 7v3) b) 1:(2+ 6v2)

c) 1:(2+ 7v2) d) (2+ 7v2):1 Ans: b

Interview structure: 1) Written Test(only aptitude; no verbal) 2) Technical Round(stress on your place of interest) 3) HR and MR (prepare previous HR & MR questions) * In our college "678" members are attended; out of "370" are cleared written test. * In these 370 around 280 are cleared techncal round. * In those 280 members 220 are cleared all remaining rounds Written test: It cinsist of 35 questions all are quantitative. Time is 80 mins. Its special offer for our Siddhartha but in general time will be only 60 mins cut off was not declared. 1) A father has 7 penny’s with him and 1 water melon is for 1p, 2chickoos for 1p, 3 grapes foe 1p. He has three sons. How can he share the fruits equally? Ans: 1 watermelon, 2 chickoos, 1 grape 2) Both questions are just 1st question but changed values. 3) There are two pipes A and B. If A filled 10 liters in hour B can fills 20 liters in same time. Likewise B can fill 10, 20, 40, 80,160. If B filled in (1/16) th of a tank in 3 hours, how much time will it take to fill completely? Ans: 7 hours 4) In a market 4 man are standing. The average age of the four before 4 years is 45, aftyer some days one man is added and his age is 49. What is the average weight of all? I am not sure but question is like this, very easy 5) A question on average speed Hint: Formula{(2*v1*v2)/(v1+v2)} 6) A question on ratio of ages between ages. Just like ages of two persons is 6:5 sum of their ages is 44 ofter how many years the ratio would be 8:7? Ans: 8 (may be some different value) 7) A large story bla bla bla at last speed of train given and time was given caliculate distance. Hint: S=T*V In some times you have to convert time from km/hr to m/sec or vise versa. Formula: kmph--to--m/sec-- multiply with (5/18) m/sec --to--kmph-- multiply with (18/5); 8) A question on cubes: A hollow cube of size 5 cm is taken, with a thickness of 1 cm. It is made of smaller cubes of size 1 cm. If 4 faces of the outer surface of the cube are painted,

totally how many faces of the smaller cubes remain unpainted? a)800 b)488 c)900 9) A hare and a tortoise have a race along a circle of 100 yards diameter. The tortoise goes in one direction and the hare in the other. The hare starts after the tortoise has covered 1/5 of its distance and that too leisurely. The hare and tortoise meet when the hare has covered only 1/8 of the distance. By what factor should the hare increase its speed so as to tie the race? a) 5 b) 37.80 c) 8 10) The IT giant Tirnop has recently crossed a head count of 150000 and earnings of $7 billion. As one of the forerunners in the technology front, Tirnop continues to lead the way in products and services in India. At Tirnop, all programmers are equal in every respect. They receive identical salaries ans also write code at the same rate.Suppose 12 such programmers take 12 minutes to write 12 lines of code in total. How many lines of code can be written by 72 programmers in 72 minutes? a) 12 b) 72 c) 6 11) I am surprised that there are three qustions again repeated by just changing numbers(very easy ) 12) This question is simple very simple this much long question is common in written exam neglect unnecessary data. You have to learn how to catch necessary data from whole stuff. 13) Ferrari S.p.A. is an Italian sports car manufacturer based in Maranello, Italy. Founded by Enzo Ferrari in 1928 as Scuderia Ferrari, the company sponsored drivers and manufactured race cars before moving into production of street-legal vehicles in 1947 as Ferrari S.p.A. Throughout its history, the company has been noted for its continued participation in racing, especially in Formula One, where it has enjoyed great success. Rohit once bought a Ferrari. It could go 2 times as fast as Mohit's old Mercedes. If the speed of Mohit's Mercedes is 32 km/hr and the distance travelled by the Ferrari is 952 km, find the total time taken for Rohit to drive that distance. a) 14.88 b) 476 c) 15.88 14) The teacher is testing a student's proficiency in arithmetic and poses the following question. 1/3 of a number is 3 more than 1/6 of the same number. What is the number? Can you help the student find the answer? a) 18 b) 21 c) 6

15) There are two water tanks A and B, A is much smaller than B. While water fills at the rate of one litre every hour in A, it gets filled up like 10, 20, 40, 80, 160 in tank B. (At the end of first hour, B has 10 litres, second hour it has 20, and so on). If 1/32 of B's volume is filled after 3 hours, what is the total duration required to fill it completely? a) 7 hours b) 9 hours c) 10 16) Again this below question is repeated thrise by changing values. Alok and Bhanu play the following min-max game. Given the expression where X, Y and Z are variables representing single digits (0 to 9), Alok would like to maximize N while Bhanu would like to minimize it. Towards this end, Alok chooses a single digit number and Bhanu substitutes this for a variable of her choice (X, Y or Z). Alok then chooses the next value and Bhanu, the variable to substitute the value. Finally Alok proposes the value for the remaining variable. Assuming both play to their optimal strategies, the value of N at the end of the game would be a) 9 b)-18 c) 4 17) See this question how easy; but he twisted it in very nice way. Taste it: A circular dartboard of radius 1 foot is at a distance of 20 feet from you. You throw a dart at it and it hits the dartboard at some point Q in the circle. What is the probability that Q is closer to the center of the circle than the periphery? a) 0.75 b) 1 c) 0.5 d) 0.25 18) On planet zorba, a solar blast has melted the ice caps on its equator. 8 years after the ice melts, tiny plantoids called echina start growing on the rocks. Echina grows in the form of a circle and the relationship between the diameter of this circle and the age of echina is given by the formula d = 4 * √ (t - 8) for t ≥ 8 Where the represents the diameter in mm and t the number of years since the solar blast. Jagan recorded the radius of some echina at a particular spot as 8mm. How many years back did the solar blast occur? a) 24 b) 12 c) 8 d) 16 19) This is very simple but a little bit twisted. For the FIFA world cup, Paul the octopus has been predicting the winner of each match with amazing success. It is rumored that in a match between 2 teams A and B, Paul picks A with

the same probability as A's chances of winning. Let's assume such rumors to be true and that in a match between Ghana and Bolivia, Ghana the stronger team has a probability of 2/3 of winning the game. What is the probability that Paul will correctly pick the winner of the Ghana-Bolivia game? a) 4/9 b) 2/3 c) 1/9 d) 5/9 20) People {a1, a2, ..., a36} meet and shake hands in a circular fashion. In other words, there are totally 36 handshakes involving the pairs, {a1, a2}, {a2, a3}, ..., {a35, a36}, {a36, a1}. Then size of the smallest set of people such that the rest have shaken hands with at least one person in the set is a) 12 b) 13 c) 18 d) 11 21) Alice and Bob play the following coins-on-a-stack game. 20 coins are stacked one above the other. One of them is a special (gold) coin and the rest are ordinary coins. The goal is to bring the gold coin to the top by repeatedly moving the topmost coin to another position in the stack. Alice starts and the players take turns. A turn consists of moving the coin on the top to a position i below the top coin (0 ≤ i ≤ 20). We will call this an i-move (thus a 0-move implies doing nothing). The proviso is that an i-move cannot be repeated; for example once a player makes a 2-move, on subsequent turns neither player can make a 2-move. If the gold coin happens to be on top when it's a player's turn then the player wins the game. Initially, the gold coinis the third coin from the top. Then In order to win, Alice's first move should be a 0-move. In order to win, Alice's first move should be a 1-move. Alice has no winning strategy. 22) There are two questions like below. He changed a little in values and statement. 23) A sheet of paper has statements numbered from 1 to 40. For all values of n from 1 to 40, statement and says: 'Exactly and of the statements on this sheet are false'. Which statements are true and which are false? a) The even numbered statements are true and the odd numbered statements are false. b) The 39th statement is true and the rest are false. c) The odd numbered statements are true and the even numbered statements are false. d) All the statements are false.

24) After the typist writes 12 letters and addresses 12 envelopes, she inserts the letters randomly into the envelopes (1 letter per envelope). What is the probability that exactly 1 letter is inserted in an improper envelope? a) 0 b) 12/212 c) 11/12 d) 1/12 25) There are three questions on this model just changed statements. 26) One day Rapunzel meets Dwarf and Byte in the Forest of forgetfulness. She knows that Dwarf lies on Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays, and tells the truth on the other days of the week. Byte, on the other hand, lies on Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays, but tells the truth on the other days of the week. Now they make the following statements to Rapunzel - Dwarf: Yesterday was one of those days when I lie. Byte: Yesterday was one of those days when I lie too. What day is it? a) Thursday b) Tuesday c) Sunday d) Monday 27) India with a burgeoning population and a plethora of vehicles (at last count there were more than 20 million of them) has witnessed big traffic jams at all major cities. Children often hone their counting skills by adding the wheels of vehicles in schoolyards or bus depots and guessing the number of vehicles. Alok, one such child, finds only bicycles and 4 wheeled wagons in his schoolyard. He counts the total number of wheels to be 46. What could be the possible number of bicycles? a) 25 b) 5 c)4 These are some questions. All are very easy but you may not get these repeated questions in paper but it's very easy. Technical round: It's very cool round. He just stressed on DBMS and I answered 75% of all questions. Like, * Joining tables * Simple queries * Primary key * Foreghn key. * Nested querys * plsql data types. HR round: He asked just simple questions about my family? prepare following.

Tell me about your self About profile of TCS Why should i hire you Strengths and weakness Hobbies, it's very important And be confident while answering Don't lie Written test: It was very easy exam as compared with other company written exams. Test

contains 35 questions, only from quantitative, in 60 minutes. You can get through if you prepared with previous papers and having a little presence of mind. Questions which i got in exam are.

1) The age of ram and sam are in the ratio 5:6 and after 4 years their ratios are 7:8

then what is the present age of sam? Ans: 12years (names and values may change) 2) There is a toy train that can make 10 musical sounds. It makes 2 musical sounds

after being defective. What is the probability that same musical sound would be produced 5 times consecutively? (1 of )? Ans: 1/2 * 1/2 * 1/2 * 1/2 * 1/2 = 1/32

3) Find (4x+2y)/ (4x-2y) if x/2y=2 4) Find average speed if a man travels at speed of 14kmph up and 26kmph down at

an altitude of 200m. Formula is 2xy/(x+y) 5) In school there are some bicycles and 4wheeler wagons.one Tuesday there are

190 wheels in the campus. How many bicycles are there? Ans: 15 6) Six friends go to pizza corner there are 2 types of pizzas. And six different flavors

are there they have to select 4 flavors from 16 flavors. In how many ways we can select?

Ans: 16C4 7) 3, 15, x, 51, 53,159,161. Find X Ans: 17 8) 3 friends A, B, C went for week end party to McDonald’s restaurant and there they

measure there weights in some order IN 7 rounds. A;B;C;AB;BC;AC;ABC. Final round measure is 155 kg then find the average weight of all the 7 rounds?

Ans: 4(155)/7=31

8. The cost of making robot is divided into cost of material, cost of repairing and cost of painting in the ratio of 5:2:3. The cost used for material is 200. Find the total cost of making the robot?

Ans: 400 (just calculate it). 10) (There was a long story, I'll cut short it). There are 5 materials to make a

perfume: Lilac, Balsamic, Lemon, and Woody and MI mosaic. To make a perfume that is in demand the following conditions are to be followed: Lilac and Balsamic go together. Woody and MI mosaic go together; Woody and Balsamic never go together. Lemon can be added with any material. (Actually they had also mentioned how much amount of one can be added with how much quantity of the other; but that's not needed for the question.) All of the following combinations are possible to make a perfume except: 1) Balsamic and Lilac 2) Woody and Lemon 3) MI mosaic and Woody 4) MI mosaic and Lilac 11) A triangle is made from a rope. The sides of the triangle are A cm, B cm and C cm (I do not remember the numerical value). What will be the area of the square made from the same rope?

Ans: ((A+B+C)/4)2 12) What is the distance of the z-intercept from the x-intercept in the equation

ax+by+cz=d (I do not remember the values of a, b, c, d). Ans: sqrt ((d/a) 2+ (d/c) 2) 13) A scientist in Antarctic region conducts research on bears came to know that

bears changes according to the location .once he moves 1 mile towards north, then he moves 2 miles towards east, then 1 mile towards south. Now the color of bear he found will be in:

Ans: white 14) Two pipes A and B fill at A certain rate B is filled at 10,20,40,80,. If 1/16 of B if

filled in 17 hours what time it will take to get completely filled Ans 21 15) There are 11 boys in a family. Youngest child is a boy. What is the probability of

all are boys? a) 2 b) 2! C) 2048 d) 1024 16) A boy bought a roll A of 56 inches wide and 141 yards long. He also bought B of

77 inches wide of length 333yards. We don’t want any details of B. Some irrelevant matter. Final question is Time taken for cutting A into 1 yard piece is 2 seconds. Time taken to cut into 141 pieces of 1 yard each is?

Ans is 2(141) =242

17) A Person buys a horse for 15 ponds, after one year he sells it for 20 pounds. After one year, again he buys the same horse at 30 pounds and sells it for 40 pounds. What is the profit for that person?

Ans is 15 pounds 18) There are 1000 pillars for a temple. 3 friends Linda, Chelsey, Juli visited that

temple. (Some unrelated stuff) Linda is taller than Chelsea and taller than 2 of 1000 pillars. Julia is shorter than Linda. Find the correct sentence?

a) Linda is shorter among them b) Chelsea is taller than Julia c) Chelsea is shorter than Julia d) Cannot determine who is taller among Chelsea and Julia Ans: d 19) In a family there are some boys and girls. All boys told that they are having equal

no of brothers and sisters and girls told that they are having twice the no. of brothers than sisters. How many boys and girls present in a family?

Ans is 4 boys and 3 girls 20) There are certain number of hats and gloves in a box. They are of 41 red, 23

green, 11 orange. Power gone. But a woman can differentiate between hats and gloves.How many draws are required to obtain a pair of each color.

21) There is a die with 10 faces. It is not known that fair or not. 2 captains want to

toss die for batting selection. What is the possible solution among the following? a) If no. is odd it is head, if no. is even it is tail b) If no. is odd it is tail, if no. is even it is head c) Toss a die until all the 10 digits appear on top face. And if first no. in the sequence

is odd then consider it as tail. If it is even consider it as head. I didn’t remembered last option and I don’t know answer. 22) 2 years ago of A is x times that of B. 3 Years hence the age of A is 4/3 times of B.

What is the present age of B in binary form? I didn’t remember the exact values of x and y. You can solve easily. 23) Ram buys a cycle for 31 dollars and given a cheque of amount 35 dollars. Shop

Keeper exchanged the cheque with his neighbor and gave change to Ram. After 2 days, it is known that cheque is bounced. Shop keeper paid the amount to his neighbor. The cost price of cycle is 19 dollars. What is the profit/loss for shop keeper?

Ans is 23(cost price + change given). 24) metal strip of width ‘x’ cm. 2 metal strips are placed one over the other, then the

combine length of 2 strips is ‘y’. If ‘z’ strips are placed in that manner. What is the final width of that arrangement?

Ans is (z-1) (y-x) +x.

25) A game is played between 2 players and one player is declared as winner. All the winners from first round are played in second round. All the winners from second round are played in third round and so on. If 8 rounds are played to declare only one player as winner, how many players are played in first round

Ans is 28. 26) There are 3 boys A, B, C and 2 Girls D, E. D always sit right to A. Girls never sit in

extreme positions and in the middle position. C always sits in the extreme positions. Who is sitting immediate right to E?

Ans is B or C 27) 49 members attended the party. In that 22 are males, 17 are females. The shake

hands between males, females, male and female. Total 12 people given shake hands. How many such kinds of such shake hands are possible?

Ans is 12C2 29) Entry ticket to an exhibition ranges from 1p to 31p. You need to provide exact

change at the counter. You have 31p coin. In how many parts will u divide 31p so that u will provide the exact change required and carry as less coins as possible?

a) 22 b) 31 c) 6 d) 32 Ans is 6 30) There are 2 friends Peter and Paul. Peter age is twice as old as Paul when peter

was as old as Paul is now. Sum of the present ages of Peter and Paul is 35.What is the present age of Peter?

Ans is 20 31) A lady took out jacket and gloves, which are avialable in blue 16, yellow 40 and

red 36. Power goes off, she can distinguish between gloves and jacket but not in colors. What's the possibilty their she will pick up pair of gloves of each color.

Ans : very easy.. 32) Two bowls are taken, one contains water and another contains tea.one spoon of

water is added to second bowl and mixed well, and a spoon of mixture is taken from second bowl and added to the second bowl. Which statement will hold good for the above? (Ans: second liquid in first bowl is smaller than the first mixture in second bowl)

33) Rearrange and categorize the word ‘IGTRE’? Ans: Animal(TIGER)

34) A lies on mon, tues, wed and speak truths on other days, B lies on Thurs, Fri, Sat and speaks truths on other days. One day a said I lied today and B said I too lied today. What is the day?

35) One grandfather has three grandchildren, two of their age difference is 3, eldest child age is 3 times youngest child’s age and eldest child’s age is two times of sum of other two children. What is the age of eldest child? Ans: 18

I attempted 28 questions exactly. Result was declared after 2 hours and my name was among the successful guys. I was so happy. Then they asked us 2 come on 4th Sept at 1:30 PM as it was getting late that day.

Technical: I reached there by 11:00 on 4th. After checking our documents, we were made 2 sit

in a room and asked 2 wait 4 the turn. My turn came around 2 pm and within an hour, result was declared and again my name was in the list.

Questions asked from me are: 1) Tell me about. yourself. Ans: I told confidently. 2) Your project in detail and your role in it. Ans: I explained my entire project with diagrams. It took almost 20 minutes. He was

satisfied. 3) Problems faced in project Ans: I explained because I have done my project in South Central Railways(SCR). It

was a live project done by me. 4) Your favourite subjects in MCA. Ans: Be well prepare with atleast 1. I told C and Java 5) Why java? Ans: Because it is a powerful language. And I explained some oops concepts which I

like the most. 6) You like programming or theoretical subjects? Ans: Be confident about this. I told programming subjects. 7) He asked me to write some code of my academic project. Ans: I have written that and explained well. He impressed. 8) Difference b/w linux and windows? Ans: I explained kernel and its use.. 9) Which database you used in your project? Ans: I told oracle 10g 10) Why? Ans: I told that SCR has Oracle licensed version. That’s y I used this. 11) Random algorithm which I used in my project Ans : explained confidently… 12) How to do project planning? Ans : I explained SDLC life cycle perfectly…

13) He also asked me to explain some new concepts that I know in C. Ans : Actually I have done some programes using graphics in C. So I explained them.

He impressed and gave shakehand. 14) Why TCS? 15) He asked some questions on college details etc. Only 100 cleard the technical. GD: Actually GD was not an elimination round in TCS. It was very easy. My topic was

Love marriages vs Arranged marriages. Be confident. raise atleast one best point. Then you will be selected.

After half an hour, I was called for HR Me: Good evening sir. Int: Good evening, take your seat. Me: Thank you sir. (Interviewer is looking at my resume, which i already gave to

them) Int: Tell me about yourself. Me: Told with confidence and smile on my face. (I think he was well satisfied with my

answer). Int: Tell me about. Your family background. Me: Bla Bla Int: Tell me about your hobbies? Me: Told as cricket and internet surfing. Then he asked some questions about cricket. So be well prepare with your hobbies Int: Why do you want to join TCS? Me: Told some strong points about TCS and he was impressed with my answer. Int: I you are rejected today, then what will you do? Me: Told Int: Are you ok with TCS bond (2 years, bond break 50,000)? Me: Yes sir I am willing to write 10 years also. Because it is TCS. Then he smiled a lot. Int: Thank you.

(It was a 10 min round. I felt very happy for that. They told me that they will send results through mail within 3 weeks. I thought i will be selected because i was confident about my performance)

Finally, i got mail on 21st sept. Thanks to GOD, I was in TCS. Around 80 students were selected in this round. If you have failed yet, don’t get disappointed. Losers got a chance to correct their mistakes and winners lost their chance to correct their mistakes. If you are selected, remember, you are better than those who are participated for that interview, but not the ‘Best’. I got selected in off-campus, I am very happy for that. Because, i completed with the other college students also. But those who got selected in On-campus are completed with the students of their college. Getting job in TCS is one of my great achievements in my life.

It was very easy exam as compared with other company written exams. Test contains 35 questions, only from quantitative, in 60 minutes. You can get through if you prepared with previous papers. Questions which i got in exam are.

1) Two pipes A and B fill at A certain rate B is filled at 10,20,40,80,. If 1/4 of B if filled in 21 hours what time it will take to get completely filled Ans: 23

2) Find average speed if a man travels at speed of 24kmph up and 36kmph down at an altitude of 200m. Formula is 2xy/(x+y)

3) 3, 15, x, 51, 53,159,161. Find X Ans: 17

3 friends A, B, C went for week end party to McDonald’s restaurant and there they measure there weights in some order IN 7 rounds. A;B;C;AB;BC;AC;ABC. Final round measure is 155 kg then find the average weight of all the 7 rounds? Ans: 4(155)/7=31

5) There is a toy train that can make 10 musical sounds. It makes 2 musical sounds after being defective. What is the probability that same musical sound would be produced 5 times consecutively? (1 of )? Ans: 1/2 * 1/2 * 1/2 * 1/2 * 1/2 = 1/32

6) A triangle is made from a rope. The sides of the triangle are A cm, B cm and C cm (I do not remember the numerical value). What will be the area of the square made from the same rope? Ans: ((A+B+C)/4)2

7) (There was a long story, I’ll cut short it). There are 5 materials to make a perfume: Lilac, Balsamic, Lemon, and Woody and MI mosaic. To make a perfume that is in demand the following conditions are to be followed: Lilac and Balsamic go together. Woody and MI mosaic go together; Woody and Balsamic never go together. Lemon can be added with any material. (Actually they had also mentioned how much amount of one can be added with

how much quantity of the other; but that’s not needed for the question.) All of the following combinations are possible to make a perfume except: 1) Balsamic and Lilac 2) Woody and Lemon 3) MI mosaic and Woody 4) MI mosaic and Lilac

8) What is the distance of the z-intercept from the x-intercept in the equation ax+by+cz=d (I do not remember the values of a, b, c, d). Ans: sqrt ((d/a) 2+ (d/c) 2)

9) (1/3) of a number is 3 times more than the (1/6) of the same number? Ans:18

10) There are 12 boys in a family. Youngest child is a boy. What is the probability of all are boys? a) 2 b) 2! C) 2048 d) 1024

11) A boy bought a roll A of 56 inches wide and 141 yards long. He also bought B of 77 inches wide of length 333yards. We don’t want any details of B. Some irrelevant matter. Final question is Time taken for cutting A into 1 yard piece is 2 seconds. Time taken to cut into 141 pieces of 1 yard each is? Ans: 2(140) =240 12) A Person buys a horse for 15 ponds, after one year he sells it for 20 pounds. After one year, again he buys the same horse at 30 pounds and sells it for 40 pounds. What is the profit for that person? Ans: 15 pounds

13) John buys a cycle for 31 dollars and given a cheque of amount 35 dollars. Shop Keeper exchanged the cheque with his neighbor and gave change to John. After 2 days, it is known that cheque is bounced. Shop keeper paid the amount to his neighbor. The cost price of cycle is 19 dollars. What is the profit/loss for shop keeper? Ans: I couldn't solve it. 14) In a family there are some boys and girls. All boys told that they are having equal no of brothers and sisters and girls told that they are having twice the no. of brothers than sisters. How many boys and girls present in a family? Ans: 4 boys and 3 girls

15) There is a die with 10 faces. It is not known that fair or not. 2 captains want to toss die for batting selection. What is the possible solution among the following?

a) If no. is odd it is head, if no. is even it is tail b) If no. is odd it is tail, if no. is even it is head c) Toss a die until all the 10 digits appear on top face. And if first no. in the sequence is odd then consider it as tail. If it is even consider it as head.

I didn’t remembered last option and I don’t know answer. 16) 2 years ago of A is x times that of B. 3 Years hence the age of A is 4/3 times of B. What is the present age of B in binary form?

I didn’t remember the exact values of x and y. You can solve easily. 17) Metal strip of width ‘x’ cm. 2 metal strips are placed one over the other, then the combine length of 2 strips is ‘y’. If ‘z’ strips are placed in that manner. What is the final width of that arrangement? Ans: (z-1) (y-x) +x. 18) There are 100 men and 100 women on the dance floor. They want to dance with each other. Then which of the following statements is always true:

a) There are 2 men who danced with equal no. of women’s b) There are 2 women who danced with equal no. of men

19) A game is played between 2 players and one player is declared as winner. All the winners from first round are played in second round. All the winners from second round are played in third round and so on. If 8 rounds are played to declare only one player as winner, how many players are played in first round 20) There are 3 boys A, B, C and 2 Girls D, E. D always sit right to A. Girls never sit in extreme positions and in the middle position. C always sits in the extreme positions. Who is sitting immediate right to E? 21) 49 members attended the party. In that 22 are males, 17 are females. The shake hands between males, females, male and female. Total 12 people given shake hands. How many such kinds of such shake hands are possible? 22) There are 1000 pillars for a temple. 3 friends Linda, Chelsey, Juli visited that temple. (Some unrelated stuff) Linda is taller than Chelsea and taller than 2 of 1000 pillars. Julia is shorter than Linda. Find the correct sentence?

a) Linda is shorter among them b) Chelsea is taller than Julia c) Chelsea is shorter than Julia d) Cannot determine who is taller among Chelsea and Julia I couldn't solve it 23) Entry ticket to an exhibition ranges from 1p to 31p. You need to provide exact change at the counter. You have 31p coin. In how many parts will u divide 31p so that u will provide the exact change required and carry as less coins as possible? a) 22 b) 31 c) 6 d) 32

24) One grandfather has three grandchildren, two of their age difference is 3, eldest child age is 3 times youngest child’s age and eldest child’s age is two times of sum of other two children. What is the age of eldest child? Ans : 18

I attempted 18 questions. I'm waiting for my result as they have told us that result will be

mailed to us within 3 days time management is very important during exam. I can solve

more than 25 but due to lack of time management I did only 18. So be prepared.

Written Test: It is the most important round to achieve success. In this round 35 questions with 60 minutes .the questions are very lengthy and time consuming .but if u found the logic it is very simple. All most all questions are having 7 to 10 lines. But the useful data is in the last two lines. And one more point is in this round there is a negative marking of 1/3. If you answered the above 20 questions you will be shortlisted.

The questions are like.

1. The ticket for a journey is in the range of 1 to 63 paise. You have 63 paise in your pocket and so on. And the question is you have to change the money into coins and all denominations are available. At final you have to buy the ticket and you should have at least one coin?(not same figures) Ans: 64 (just add 1 to highest i.e. 63+1)

2. The sum of two numbers is given and product is also given find the square of difference of two numbers. Ans:(a-b)2=a2+b2+2ab.

3. The dog and here are running. dog crosses the roads, rivers and different. Here start running after 2 hours of dog running. dog runs 30kmph in 6 hours. Then what is the averge speed of here? (values are not same)

Ans: 30*6/4

4. In a restaurant there are differnet 9flavours of pizzas. Ans: n c m

5. A length of rod is turned into triangle. The sides of a triangle are 12,16,10. if this rod is turned into square then find the area of the square?

Ans: rod length=12+16+10=38 length of the side os a square=38/4; area=(38/4)*(38/4)

6. There are some chocolates. A woman can eat 3 chocolates and a man can eat 1 chocolate and a child can eat half chocolate. Then 20 chocolates is divided in.

Ans: Go through the options(5Woman, 3man, 4children).

7. A water tank is filled in the way as 256,128,64,. the parts in every hour. Then in how many hours the tank will filled?

Ans: 256,128,64,32,16,8,4,2,1 ( 9 hours) values are not same.

8. The age of ram and sam are in the ratio 5:6 and after 4 years their ratios are 7:8 then what is the present age of sam?

Ans: 12years (names and values may change)

The result of written test is given with in 24 hours time and by luck am one of the shortlisted candidates. And the remaining rounds are conducted for me 2nd September.

Technical Interview:

For me it's a cool interview and the interviewer is very young and encouragive. My interview is like.

Sir: Tell me about yourself? Me: I answered. This is best question to impress the panel. So prepare yourself. Sir: Which project you have done in the academics? Me: I answered my project details nearly 10mins. For this answered sir was impressed. Sir: Which platform you have devloped? Me: Java Sir: How many marks you will give for Java? me: 7 Sir: he asked some questions on java like What is the difference b/w String and StringBuffer? What are the life cycles of servelet and Applets? Some questions on MuktiThreading? Sir: Sir wrote some lines of code like. String s1="abc"; String s2="abc"; String s3=new String("abc"); if(s1==s2)//what it returns wheather true or false and why? if(s1==s3)//what it returns wheather true or false and why?

I answered with explanation.

Sir: What is the difference between '=='operator and .equals() func?

And some questions on SQL joins like difference between right join and left join and natural join etc. And finally he asked what is your favourite core subject? Me: OS but he didn't asked any questions on OS.

Mangement Round:

It's very easy round and less elimination round. In this round they ask simple questions and give a situations and observe ur feelings. So be confident in this round. If you cleared this round then you are almost placed. But don't neglect HR.

HR Round:

For it's me very simple and for me HR is a young lady and simply smiling face. She asked tell me about yourself? What is you are native place and for what it is famous? Who is the founder of Google? Who are the competators for the TCS in the world market as well as in Indian market? Are you willing to relocate? What is your favourite working location?

It is very easy exam compared with other company written exams. Test contains 35 questions, only from quantitative, in 60 minutes. You can get through if you prepared with previous papers. Questions which i got in exam are.

1) Two pipes A and B fill at A certain rate B is filled at 10,20,40,80,. If 1/16 of B if filled in 17 hours what time it will take to get completely filled Ans 21

2) In a shopping mall with a staff of 5 members the average age is 45 years. After 5 years a person joined them and the average age is again 45 years. What’s the age of 6th person?

3) Find (4x+2y)/ (4x-2y) if x/2y=2

4) Find average speed if a man travels at speed of 24kmph up and 36kmph down at an altitude of 200m.formula is 2xy/(x+y)

5) Same model as 4th question. But it is on flat surface. Formula is same 2xy/(x+y).

6) Six friends go to pizza corner there r 2 types of pizzas. And six different flavors r there they have to select 2 flavors from 6 flavors. In how many ways we can select?

Ans: 6C2

7) 3, 15, x, 51, 53,159,161. Find X Ans: 17 8) 3 friends A, B, C went for week end party to McDonald’s restaurant and there they measure there weights in some order IN 7 rounds. A;B;C;AB;BC;AC;ABC. Final round measure is 155 kg then find the average weight of all the 7 rounds? Ans: 4(155)/7=31

9) There is a toy train that can make 10 musical sounds. It makes 2 musical sounds after being defective. What is the probability that same musical sound would be produced 5 times consecutively? (1 of )? Answer: 1/2 * 1/2 * 1/2 * 1/2 * 1/2 = 1/32

10) (There was a long story, I'll cut short it). There are 5 materials to make a perfume: Lilac, Balsamic, Lemon, and Woody and MI mosaic. To make a perfume that is in demand the following conditions are to be followed: Lilac and Balsamic go together. Woody and MI mosaic go together; Woody and Balsamic never go together. Lemon can be added with any material. (Actually they had also mentioned how much amount of one can be added with how much quantity of the other; but that's not needed for the question.) All of the following combinations are possible to make a perfume except: 1) Balsamic and Lilac 2) Woody and Lemon 3) MI mosaic and Woody 4) MI mosaic and Lilac 11) A triangle is made from a rope. The sides of the triangle are A cm, B cm and C cm (I do not remember the numerical value). What will be the area of the square made from the same rope? Ans: ((A+B+C)/4)2 12) What is the distance of the z-intercept from the x-intercept in the equation ax+by+cz=d (I do not remember the values of a, b, c, d). Ans: sqrt ((d/a) 2+ (d/c) 2) 13) A scientist in Antarctic region conducts research on bears came to know that bears changes according to the location .once he moves 1 mile towards north, then he moves 2 miles towards east, then 1 mile towards south. Now the color of bear he found will be in: Ans: white

14) (1/3) of a number is 3 times more than the (1/6) of the same number? Ans is 18 15) There are 11 boys in a family. Youngest child is a boy. What is the probability of all are boys?

a) 2 b) 2! C) 2048 d) 1024 16) A boy bought a roll A of 56 inches wide and 141 yards long. He also bought B of 77 inches wide of length 333yards. We don’t want any details of B. Some irrelevant matter. Final question is Time taken for cutting A into 1 yard piece is 2 seconds. Time taken to cut into 141 pieces of 1 yard each is? Ans is 2(141) =242 17) A Person buys a horse for 15 ponds, after one year he sells it for 20 pounds. After one year, again he buys the same horse at 30 pounds and sells it for 40 pounds. What is the profit for that person? Ans is 15 pounds 18) John buys a cycle for 31 dollars and given a cheque of amount 35 dollars. Shop Keeper exchanged the cheque with his neighbor and gave change to John. After 2 days, it is known that cheque is bounced. Shop keeper paid the amount to his neighbor. The cost price of cycle is 19 dollars. What is the profit/loss for shop keeper? Ans is 23(cost price + change given). 19) In a family there are some boys and girls. All boys told that they are having equal no of brothers and sisters and girls told that they are having twice the no. of brothers than sisters. How many boys and girls present in a family? Ans is 4 boys and 3 girls

20) There are certain number of hats and gloves in a box. They are of 41 red, 23 green, 11 orange. Power gone. But a woman can differentiate between hats and gloves.How many draws are required to obtain a pair of each color.

21) There is a die with 10 faces. It is not known that fair or not. 2 captains want to toss die for batting selection. What is the possible solution among the following?

a) If no. is odd it is head, if no. is even it is tail b) If no. is odd it is tail, if no. is even it is head c) Toss a die until all the 10 digits appear on top face. And if first no. in the sequence is odd then consider it as tail. If it is even consider it as head. I didn’t remembered last option and I don’t know answer. 22) 2 years ago of A is x times that of B. 3 Years hence the age of A is 4/3 times of B. What is the present age of B in binary form? I didn’t remember the exact values of x and y. You can solve easily. 23) metal strip of width ‘x’ cm. 2 metal strips are placed one over the other, then the combine length of 2 strips is ‘y’. If ‘z’ strips are placed in that manner. What is the final width of that arrangement? Ans is (z-1) (y-x) +x.

24) There are 100 men and 100 women on the dance floor. They want to dance with each other. Then which of the following statements is always true: a) There are 2 men who danced with equal no. of women’s b) There are 2 women who danced with equal no. of men 25) A game is played between 2 players and one player is declared as winner. All the winners from first round are played in second round. All the winners from second round are played in third round and so on. If 8 rounds are played to declare only one player as winner, how many players are played in first round Ans is 28. 26) There are 3 boys A, B, C and 2 Girls D, E. D always sit right to A. Girls never sit in extreme positions and in the middle position. C always sits in the extreme positions. Who is sitting immediate right to E? Ans is B or C 27) 49 members attended the party. In that 22 are males, 17 are females. The shake hands between males, females, male and female. Total 12 people given shake hands. How many such kinds of such shake hands are possible? Ans is 12C2 28) There are 1000 pillars for a temple. 3 friends Linda, Chelsey, Juli visited that temple. (Some unrelated stuff) Linda is taller than Chelsea and taller than 2 of 1000 pillars. Julia is shorter than Linda. Find the correct sentence? a) Linda is shorter among them b) Chelsea is taller than Julia c) Chelsea is shorter than Julia d) Cannot determine who is taller among Chelsea and Julia

Ans: d

29) Entry ticket to an exhibition ranges from 1p to 31p. You need to provide exact change at the counter. You have 31p coin. In how many parts will u divide 31p so that u will provide the exact change required and carry as less coins as possible? a) 22 b) 31 c) 6 d) 32

Ans is 6

30) There are 2 friends Peter and Paul. Peter age is twice as old as Paul when peter was as old as Paul is now. Sum of the present ages of Peter and Paul is 35.What is the present age of Peter? Ans is 20

I attempted 30 questions. Next day evening I got mail from TCS that I cleared aptitude test and called for interview. They sent one application form to mail. Interview is on 8th in Vardhaman Engineering College, Hyderabad at 1:30pm.

I reached college by 12:30pm. They collected filled in application form at 2:45pm and calling one by one for technical interview.

Around 5:00pm, i was called for Technical Round. It’s a 2 member panel.

Me: Good Evening sir (I wished both) Int: Good evening. What’s your name? Me: Venkata Sateesh sir. Int: My name is Avinash. (I didn’t remembered other panelist name)Take your seat. Tell me about your strengths and weaknesses. Me: I told 2 strengths and 2 weaknesses. Int: Tell me your areas of interest? Me: C and Java Int: Choose any of your subjects other than programming? Me: selected Operating systems. Int: Select one more subject like DBMS or CN (He given me the choice) Me: Selected Data Base Management Systems (But I am not perfect in DBMS but better than CN). Int: Tell some operating systems which are available in the market? Me: Windows from Microsoft, Mac from Apple, and so on Int: Ok. Write a query to display first 5 lines in a table and given white paper Me: I started writing query like “select * from table……” (Actually I don’t know answer) and showed Int: It is not correct try one more time Me: I started writing one more query (but it also not correct, I know that). But I showed that query with confidence Int: It is also wrong. Ok, leave it. What is foreign key? Me: Explained Int: What is entity? Me: Explained with example. Int: What is entity relationship model? Me: Again explained with example which i taken above Int: What is normalization? Me: Told Int: Explain 1st and 2nd normalization by taking examples?

Me: Explained with confidence and smile on my face but not accurate. Int: (In my resume i kept that i am maintaining a website for my department). What are the tools you used for creating website? Me: Told. Int: I think you’re having knowledge in web designing. What is the difference between JSP and servlet? Me: Told. Int: Write a program for finding factorial of a given number using recursion? Me: Wrote Int: Why you wrote like this? (pointing to one line)

Me: We can write that in some other ways also and i wrote in other 2 ways. (I think he was fully satisfied with my answer)

Int: Are you having any questions? Me: No sir.

Int: Ok sateesh you’re promoted to next round i.e. HR

(TI is around 20min for me. Friends, even if you don’t know answer, don’t get worry. Say what you know with confidence, smile on your face and maintain good eye contact) (Be through with your resume. If you mention any references in application form, be ready to face the questions like how is he/she related to you? on what project he/she is working? What he/she told about our company? What is his/her designation? What is his/her work in TCS? one of my friend rejected in the technical interview, because he not answered questions which i mentioned above. Interviewer told that you must have interest to know about the work in a software company, without that interest how you work in a software company?)

I am waiting for my HR interview. After 2 hours i called for HR around 7:30pm.

Me: Good evening sir. Int: Good evening, take your seat. Me: Seat. (Interviewer is looking at my resume, which i already gave to them) Int: Tell me about yourself. Me: Told with confidence and smile on my face. (I think he was well satisfied with my answer). He didn’t ask any more questions. Int: Are you having any geographical constraints (are you intended to work anywhere in the world)?

Me: No sir, I am not having any geographical constraints and I’m interested to work anywhere in the world. Int: Are you ok with TCS bond (2 years, bond break 50,000)? Me: Yes sir. Int: Thank you.

(It’s a 3 min round for me. I felt very happy for that. They told me that they will send results to mail within a week or 2. I thought i am selected, and i was confident about my performance ).